Web shells, a common type of post-exploitation tool that provides easy-to-use interface through which to issue commands to a compromised server, have become increasingly popular as attackers become ...

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 ...

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 ...

FBI cleans up Web shells on Microsoft Exchange Server installations The FBI has intervened to clean up the mess left by attacks on on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server installations after obtaining ...

The number of malicious web shells installed on web servers increased significantly last year and between August and January of 2021, Microsoft registered an average of 140,000 encounters of these ...

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, ...

Threat analysts have uncovered a large-scale campaign targeting Elastix VoIP telephony servers with more than 500,000 malware samples over a period of three months. Elastix is a server software for ...

Cisco Talos released its cybersecurity report for the first quarter of 2023, highlighting the most common attacks, targets and other significant trends. The findings show that web shells were the top ...

Fresh proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits are circulating in the wild for a widely targeted Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server flaw. The new attack vectors could enable a malicious ...

The first half of 2021 saw no slowdown in malicious online activity as Accenture detected a 125% increase in cyber-intrusion incident volume versus the same period last year. The global consultancy’s ...