Researchers unearth Windows backdoor that’s unusually stealthy

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinFeb 16, 2023, 4:21 pm172 pts
Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) Researchers have discovered a clever piece of malware that stealthily exfiltrates data and executes malicious code from Windows systems by abusing a feature in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). IIS is a general-purpose web server that runs on…

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