Tag: milisendo
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Thousands of websites infected with .htaccess redirect attack
Various anti-detection methods applied. Thousands of legitimate websites have seen .htaccess files compromised and as a consequence have been used to serve the ‘Milisenco’ trojan, researchers at Symantec report. .htaccess is a configuration file used by a number of webservers, including the popular Apache server. It allows for decentralised management of the server and requires…