A new Linux malware downloader created using SHC (Shell Script Compiler) has been spotted in the wild, infecting systems with Monero cryptocurrency miners and DDoS IRC bots.

A generic shell script compiler. Shc takes a script, which is specified on the command line and produces C source code. The generated source code is then compiled and linked to produce a stripped ...

A new Linux malware downloader created using SHC (Shell Script Compiler) has been spotted in the wild, infecting systems with Monero cryptocurrency miners and DDoS IRC bots. According to ASEC ...

shc is a popular tool for protecting shell scripts that contain sensitive information such as passwords. Its popularity was driven partly by auditors' concern over passwords in scripts. shc encrypts ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...