🚨 Your “boring” IIS server just got a side hustle: casino redirects + SEO fraud.
And vendors are slapping different stickers on the same-ish mess: Talos’ UAT-8099 vs WithSecure’s WEBJACK. Same neighborhood, different name tags.
Here’s the part defenders keep missing: “BadIIS” alone isn’t a hunt. The money is in the operator fingerprints:
new IIS modules / weird DLL names + staging paths
$-suffixed local accounts (because subtlety is dead)
tunnel/remote tooling + header-based cloaking (UA/Referer/Accept-Language)
If your detections are split by vendor labels, you’re basically running four playbooks for one problem. 🤦♂️
What’s your reality check: do you still have IIS boxes no one “owns,” but everyone panics over when Google starts ranking them for gambling?
Read / subscribe: https://blog.alphahunt.io/deep-research-badiis-isnt-enough-the-iis-module-http-fingerprints-that-catch-seo-fraud-cloaking
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