Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security personnel at Microsoft are seeing a big increase in the use of Web shells, the light-weight programs that hackers install so they can burrow further into compromised websites. The average number of Web shells installed from August, 2020 to January of this year was 144,000, almost twice that for the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Email management provider Mimecast said that hackers have compromised a digital certificate it issued and used it to target select customers who use it to encrypt data they sent and received through the company’s cloud-based service. In a post published on Tuesday, the company said that the certificate was used by […]