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Microsoft said the number of web shells has doubled since last year – ZDNet
Microsoft says it’s seeing around 140,000 web shells a month, up from roughly 77,000 last August.
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Microsoft says the number of malicious web shells installed on web servers has almost doubled since its last count, last year in August 2020.
In a blog post yesterday, the Redmond company said it detected roughly 140,000 web shells per month between August 2020 and January 2021, up from the 77,000 average it reported last year.
The number has increased as a result of a shift in how hackers view web shells. Once considered a tool for script kiddies defacing websites and the go-to…
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