A week in security (July 25 – July 31)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Update Google Chrome now! New version includes 11 important security patches Lightning Framework, modular Linux malware Malware spent months hoovering up credit card details from 300 US restaurants Lock down your Neopets account: Data breach being investigated Demo...

IIS extensions are on the rise as backdoors to servers

The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services IIS extensions as covert backdoors into servers. IIS extensions are able to stay hidden in target environments and as such provide a long-term persistence mechanism for...