Year: 2021

Drowning in spam? A study presented at Black Hat USA 2021 examines if sharing your personal information with major companies contributes to the deluge of nuisance emails, texts and phone calls. Every day my inbox seems to receive more and more spam. Understanding what generates it and how to avoid it is essential in the…

ESET researchers publish a white paper putting IIS web server threats under the microscope ESET researchers have discovered a set of previously undocumented malware families, implemented as malicious extensions for Internet Information Services (IIS) web server software. Targeting both government mailboxes and e-commerce transactions, as well as aiding in malware distribution, this diverse class of…

The first in our series on IIS threats looks at a malicious IIS extension that intercepts server transactions to steal credit card information ESET researchers have discovered and analyzed a previously undocumented trojan that steals payment information from e-commerce websites’ customers. The trojan, which we named IIStealer, is detected by ESET security solutions as Win64/BadIIS.…