Malware for Linux

[Michael ODonnell]

Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when
discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither
is true.  We are, for now, statistically less likely to be
compromised because there aren't as many of us and because
privilege separation has been more the custom with us than
with Windows users.  Those factors are changing, though...

> Once it has found out which operating system you are running,
> the Java class file will download the appropriate flavour of
> malware, with the intention of opening a backdoor that will
> give hackers remote access to your computer.

Do we know the nature of the compromise when the "flavour"
is Linux?  Is the JVM itself vulnerable or are additional
non-Java scripts/binaries brought onboard?