RE: Has there been in-the-wild i Series virus?

I'll never forget the look on Carol Woodbury's face when Steve Glanstein (there's a name from the past) showed her a security hole. The whole was patched with the next cumulative PTF.

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Subject: Re: Has there been in-the-wild i Series virus?

This is the only scenario that I have ever encountered - where they were using the IFS as a mapped drive and infected PCs infected files on the server. In that type of context the host (linux/Windows/IBM i) is irrelevant other than "can the system itself get infected" and in the case of the i the answer has always been no.

The system has been hacked - mostly due to people foolishly leaving default passwords in place - but there has been no virus to my knowledge that ever infected the system per-se.

On Mar 24, 2020, at 4:50 PM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Target in 2014.

"When they finally scanned their IBM i server, they were shocked to find 248,095 files infected with CryptoWall, a highly destructive type of ransomware."

Paul

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I've never heard of one in over 20 years.

Bradley V. Stone
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:16 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At one time someone said there has never been an i-Series virus in
the wild? Never knew if it was true then or not.

If it was true, is it still true?

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