Submission + - Attack Campaign Hits Thousands of MS-SQL Servers for Two Years (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: An average of 2000 to 3000 publicly exposed Microsoft SQL servers a day are being infected with remote access Trojans and cryptominers as part of an attack campaign that has been traced back to 2018, reports Lucian Constantin in CSOonline. While the primary goal of the attack seems to be cryptocurrency mining, ‘what makes these database servers appealing for attackers apart from their valuable CPU power is the huge amount of data they hold,’ say researchers from Guardicore who investigated the attacks. The researchers also note that most machines (60%) stay infected only briefly, but ‘almost 20% of all breached servers remained infected for more than a week and even longer than two weeks,’ and 10% become reinfected. Infections from this campaign are thorough and have multiple components, and the attackers aggressively remove malware from competitors from targeted machines, says Constantin.
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