The use of web shells is increasing, which could put your business at risk. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about web shells. Recently, the U.S. FBI was given court authorization to delete web ...

Threat groups deployed a range of web shells against vulnerable or unpatched web applications in 35% of incidents during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a report by Cisco Talos. The ...

Microsoft says the number of malicious web shells installed on web servers has almost doubled since its last count, last year in August 2020. Systems running the Windows 10 Anniversary Update were ...

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, ...

A court-approved FBI operation was conducted to remove web shells from compromised US-based Microsoft Exchange servers without first notifying the servers' owners. On March 2nd, Microsoft released a ...

The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today updated its guidance for ongoing Microsoft Exchange Server exploits to include two new Malware ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Stealthy, ...

Microsoft has warned that inadequate security on web applications and internet-facing servers is allowing hackers to use web shells in their tens of thousands each month to launch attacks. Web shells ...

As long as computers have been around, there have been hackers who have progressively improved and become sneakier at exploiting them. Last year, Microsoft used Microsoft 365 Defender data to find ...

Hacked Web sites aren’t just used for hosting malware anymore. Increasingly, they are being retrofitted with tools that let miscreants harness the compromised site’s raw server power for attacks aimed ...

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 ...