Special IIS malware for Windows web servers
Special malicious programs spy out governments and attack online shoppers. ESET publishes white papers on the latest IIS malware threats to Windows web servers. The vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange worried many IT administrators at the beginning of the year. Because hackers were able to exploit Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS). ESET researchers have now analyzed a total of ten previously unknown malware families that were used as malicious extensions for the IIS web server. These various threats target both government mailboxes and credit card transactions in e-commerce. They can eavesdrop on and manipulate the server's communication. According to…