A single .sh file with exec permission that asks for sudo will easily download appimage keyloggers and then set a cron job to run it every X time to keep it alive and sends it all to whatever remote location. Or whatever else you let the appimage do.

95% of regular users will double click that, and then write their pass in the popup without blinking twice and that will work in most Linux systems.

Most viruses don’t target Linux, sure, but that’s wishful thinking. Always be creful with what you run.

Linux has viruses. Always protect yourself…

A few years ago I found a text (probably as image) where somebody ‘tried’ to run a virus on linux. It went something like this:

Wanted to install a virus on Ubuntu, but it was only available as an aur package. Tried converting. Didn’t work … Tried make virus, but didn’t work. Upgraded cmake, tried again, but some libraries were missing.

Tried installing libraries, but they were very outdated and I couldn’t find proper versions.

Checked the source to see what the libs were doing and replaced them.

and so on.

Does someone know what I’m talking about and possibly has the source?