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May 08, 2013
A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why.Last week, security companies Eset and Sucuri found Apache servers infected with Linux/Cdorked. If that malware is running on a Web server, victims are redirected to another website that tries to compromise their computer.Eset said on Tuesday it has now found versions of Linux/Cdorked engineered for the Lighttpd and Nginx Web servers, both widely used across the Internet.Marc-Etienne M. Leveille of Eset wrote that the company has found 400 Web servers infected so far, of which 50 are ranked in Web analytics company Alexa's top 100,000 websites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2038180/stealthy-web-server-malware-spreads-further.html#tk.rss_all
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