Statistics Report on Malware Targeting Windows Database Servers in Q4 2025
AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) utilizes the AhnLab Smart Defense (ASD) infrastructure to respond to and categorize attacks targeting MS-SQL and MySQL servers installed on Windows operating systems. This post covers the damage status of MS-SQL and MySQL servers that have become attack targets and statistics on attacks against these
Statistics Report on Malware Targeting Windows Database Servers in Q3 2025
AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) utilizes the AhnLab Smart Defense (ASD) to categorize and respond to attacks targeting Windows-based MS-SQL and MySQL servers. This report will cover the current state of damage to MS-SQL and MySQL servers that became attack targets based on the logs discovered in the third quarter
Cryptojacking Attack Campaign Against Apache Web Servers Using Cobalt Strike
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) is monitoring attacks against vulnerable web servers that have unpatched vulnerabilities or are being poorly managed. Because web servers are externally exposed for the purpose of providing web services to all available users, these become major attack targets for threat actors. Major examples of
Ddostf DDoS Bot Malware Attacking MySQL Servers
The AhnLab Security Emergency response Center’s (ASEC) analysis team is constantly monitoring malware distributed to vulnerable database servers. MySQL server is one of the main database servers that provides the feature of managing large amounts of data in a corporate or user environment. Typically, in Windows environments, MS-SQL is primarily
AsyncRAT Being Distributed to Unsecured MySQL Servers
The ShadowServer foundation has recently released a report showing that there are about 3.6 million MySQL servers exposed to outside. Along with MS-SQL server, MySQL server is one of the main database servers that provides the feature of managing large amounts of data in a corporate or user environment. MS-SQL
Gh0stCringe RAT Being Distributed to Vulnerable Database Servers
The ASEC analysis team is constantly monitoring malware distributed to vulnerable database servers (MS-SQL, MySQL servers). This blog will explain the RAT malware named Gh0stCringe[1]. Gh0stCringe, also known as CirenegRAT, is one of the malware variants based on the code of Gh0st RAT. It was first discovered in December 2018,
