Half a million IIS servers came under attack
The Internet is spreading an epidemic of a new virus that exploits a vulnerability in the popular Microsoft Internet Information Server. From infected sites redirect to a site with malicious code.
You can determine the fact of infection by the appearance of a new line in the page code.
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It looks like the epidemic is becoming global. First, the antivirus company Panda Security drew attention to this, which estimated the number of affected IIS servers at 282 thousand, but within a day, F-Secure raised the bar to 500 thousand. Actually, the same picture shows a search through Google.
Experts warn: if earlier, in order to avoid contagion, it was necessary to refrain from visiting questionable sites, but now you can pick up a Trojan even when visiting a very respectable site on which IIS is installed.
You can determine the fact of infection by the appearance of a new line in the page code.
')
It looks like the epidemic is becoming global. First, the antivirus company Panda Security drew attention to this, which estimated the number of affected IIS servers at 282 thousand, but within a day, F-Secure raised the bar to 500 thousand. Actually, the same picture shows a search through Google.
Experts warn: if earlier, in order to avoid contagion, it was necessary to refrain from visiting questionable sites, but now you can pick up a Trojan even when visiting a very respectable site on which IIS is installed.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/24218/
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