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The microsoft iis tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions where Microsoft's Internet Information Services web server appears in real-world security and administration contexts. Recent coverage focuses on attacks against internet-facing web services, including research linking AntiFox intrusions to IIS-hosted applications, webshell deployment, configuration discovery, credential validation, and access to cloud secrets in AWS environments. For Windows administrators, the recurring theme is that an exposed IIS web application can become an entry point into systems well beyond the web server itself, making cross-system evidence and cloud logging gaps important defensive concerns.
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    AntiFox Attacks Target IIS and AWS: Webshells, Stolen Credentials and Cloud Logging Gaps

    Attackers are using infrastructure hosting AntiFox, an open-source AI-assisted penetration-testing platform, in intrusions against internet-facing web services and AWS environments. Arctic Wolf researchers associated self-managed AntiFox instances on Alibaba Cloud with webshell deployment...