Apache attack drives traffic to malware | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

 

A security researcher is warning that an attack on the Apache Web server is increasingly showing up in the wild, and has published a free Python tool to check their configurations.

 

The attack is designed to avoid leaving disk footprints, according to this post analysing the backdoor. It exists as a modified httpd file that redirects HTTP requests to the well-known Blackhole exploit pack.