Attacks targeting IIS servers have shown a massive 782 times increase, from 2,000 to 1.7 million, over the last quarter according to a new report. The report from threat protection specialist eSentire reveals that most attacks targeting IIS web servers originated from China-based IP addresses. There's also an eclectic range of operating systems among the attacking infrastructure involved -- over 400 of the attacking IPs had Shodan records indicating they were Windows machines (including XP, 7, 8, 2008, and 2012). Additionally, nearly 350 FTP servers and over 100 mail servers were reported. There were also VPN servers, MikroTik devices (reported…
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