Threat Advisory: NSA, ASD Release Guidance for Mitigating Web Shell Malware

April 22, 2020

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) have jointly released a Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) on mitigating web shell malware. Malicious cyber actors are increasingly deploying web shell malware on victim web servers to execute arbitrary system commands. By deploying web shell malware, cyber attackers can gain persistent access to compromised networks. The CSI provides techniques to detect—and recommendations to prevent—malicious web shells.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review the CSI and NSA’s article, Detect & Prevent Cyber Attackers from Exploiting Web Servers via Web Shell Malware, for more information and to apply the recommended mitigations.

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Herjavec Group continues to track COVID-19 related cyberattacks. We have a complete resource center tracking COVID-19 related threats, malware types, as well as a summary of IOCs and domains specific to COVID-19. Review it here.

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For Managed Services customers, our Managed Services team will engage with the appropriate technical contacts in your respective organizations directly to provide alerts, escalations, actions and or reports based our service agreement with you. If you have questions or concerns, please engage your Herjavec Group account representative directly or contact Herjavec Group.