A new form of Linux malware is hijacking Internet of Things (IoT) devices made by one vendor by exploiting a common gateway interface (CGI) vulnerability.

It affects server-side web applications that run in Common Gateway Interface (CGI) or CGI-like environments, such as some FastCGI configurations, along with programing languages PHP, Python, and Go.

Jack Wallen explains why you'd want to enable the Common Gateway Interface on an Apache server and then shows how to do it.

What is CGI/FastCGI in IIS? Web technologies like CGI (Common Gateway Interface) allow web servers (HTTP servers) to connect to external applications like PHP.