Default User SSH Authorized Key Risks on Linux

Videos Education Linux Forensics

Date
December 09, 2024
Author
The Sandfly Security Team

Default Linux users with SSH authorized keys are a way for attackers to hide backdoor accounts that can avoid detection for some time. In this video we discuss and demonstrate the threat, why it's used, and how to find it with command line tools and automatic discovery with Sandfly, the agentless Linux EDR platform.

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