Tag: apache

  • Paper: All Your Meetings Are Belong to Us: Remote Code Execution in Apache OpenMeetings

    The rise of bug bounties in recent years has created an incentive for hackers to hunt for vulnerabilities in a lot of software and services. But what about those software projects that can’t pay bounties, because they are developed by volunteers? Thankfully, some researchers are devoting their time to such projects and to helping them…

  • Apache binaries replaced by stealth malcious ones

    Malicious servers opening backdoors, performing redirects. Researchers at ESET and Sucuri have discovered a modified Apache binary that is used on hundreds of web servers to perform malicious redirects and open a backdoor to the server, while going to great lengths to hide its activity. Recently, thousands of websites – most prominently that of the…

  • Over 1 per cent of search results include malicious sites

    Google research paper confirms significant increase in number of malware-serving websites. Recent reports of increasing numbers of websites serving malicious content have been confirmed in a paper published by researchers from Google . The researchers report finding over three million URLs serving malware, as detected by at least one anti-virus program, with another three million…