Ruby on Rails flaw being used to recruit servers to botnets

Posted by caitlyn on Jun 2, 2013 2:10 AM EDT
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Criminals are using an old weakness in the Ruby on Rails web application framework to recruit vulnerable servers into a botnet. Developers running Ruby on Rails should install an update that was released in late January for a serious remote execution flaw that attackers began exploiting in the past week.

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