Top 5 things to know about web shells

2021-05-10 15:31

Tom Merritt lists five things to know about web shells.

Recently, the U.S. FBI was given court authorization to delete web shells from Microsoft Exchange servers.

You don't generally let the FBI go scanning for web shells if it's an easy fix.

Why all the angst? Here are five things to know about web shells.

According to Microsoft, the average number of web shells installed from August 2020 to January 2021 was 144,000-that's almost double the same period from 2019 to 2020.You can write one in almost any web programming language.

They're web shells are easy to use once you install them.

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