FBI Blasts Away Web Shells on US Servers Without Telling Owners
ZDNet reported on April 14 that the Department of Justice revealed on April 13 that the FBI had received authorization from a court to remove web shells installed on compromised servers related to the Exchange vulnerabilities.
“Many infected system owners successfully removed the web shells from thousands of computers. Others appeared unable to do so, and hundreds of such web shells persisted unmitigated,” the department said.
“This operation removed one early hacking group’s remaining web…