Security researchers from Russian Internet gianthave discovered a new piece of malware that is being used to target Linux and FreeBSD web servers in order to make them a part of the wide botnet, even without the need of any root privileges. Researchers dubbed the malware as Mayhem, a nasty malware modular that includes a number of payloads to cause malicious things and targets only those machines which are not updated with security patches or less likely to run security software. So far, researchers have found over 1,400 Linux and. FreeBSD servers around the world that have compromised by the malware, with potentially thousands more to come.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/07/mayhem-new-malware-targets-linux-and_24.html