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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 web services that support Windows environments include Internet Information Services (IIS), Apache, Apache Tomcat, and Nginx. While the Apache web service is usually used in Linux environments, there are some…

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 installed for database services, while in Linux environments, database services like MySQL and PostgreSQL are used. However, although not as frequently as MS-SQL servers, there are instances where MySQL servers…