Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.

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    1 year ago

    .bashrc and .profile can be modified without root, as can autostarting .desktop files. I think systemd and anything in /etc require root though.
    Also a lot of users set sudo to not require a password (I am guilty of this) which makes privilege escalation easy.