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Chinese hackers target Windows servers with SEO poisoning campaign

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Hackers are taking advantage of vulnerable servers to take over websites, and use them to steal people’s credentials, deploy malware, and more.

A report from Cisco Talos, who have been tracking the activity for some time now, revealed the group would first seek out vulnerable web application services such as phpMyAdmin, WordPress, or similar. Then, they would use the vulnerabilities to deploy a web shell which grants them control over the server.

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