{"id":19793,"date":"2026-04-03T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/microsoft-details-cookie-controlled-php-web-shells-persisting-via-cron-on-linux-servers-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:32:00","slug":"microsoft-details-cookie-controlled-php-web-shells-persisting-via-cron-on-linux-servers-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/microsoft-details-cookie-controlled-php-web-shells-persisting-via-cron-on-linux-servers-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Details Cookie-Controlled PHP Web Shells Persisting via Cron on Linux Servers info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threat\u00a0actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research\u00a0Team.<br \/>\n&#8220;Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-supplied cookie values to gate execution,<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/microsoft-details-cookie-controlled-php.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat\u00a0actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research\u00a0Team. &#8220;Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-supplied cookie values to gate execution,Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}