Malware known as China Chopper is behind the recent headline-making attacks against vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers worldwide. China Copper is a type of malicious software known as a Web shell, ...

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) have issued a joint report warning of threat actors increasingly exploiting vulnerable web servers to deploy web ...

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Web shell malware, which executes arbitrary instructions on a targeted Web server, is a large and growing cybersecurity problem — and now government intelligence agencies are releasing guidance on how ...

Security personnel at Microsoft are seeing a big increase in the use of Web shells, the light-weight programs that hackers install so they can burrow further into compromised websites. The average ...

Threat researchers have found a new feature-rich malware that can encrypt files on any system running PHP, making it a high risk for Windows, macOS, and Linux web servers. The malware received the ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, offers a detailed look at how to build risk management policies to protect your critical digital assets. Read now In a blog post ...

Attackers often use web shells to mimic legitimate files and compromise web servers. These best practices will lower your risk. One tool that bad guys use to go after your web servers is a web shell.

As forensic evidence is slowly being unearthed in the aftermath of the SolarWinds supply chain attack, security researchers have discovered a second threat actor that has exploited the SolarWinds ...

Malware borrows generously from code used by other botnets such as Mirai, Qbot and Zbot. A rapidly evolving IoT malware dubbed “EnemyBot” is targeting content management systems (CMS), web servers and ...