Microsoft Warns of Malware Campaign Targeting SQL Servers Using Brute Force

The United States Department of Homeland Security has issued a threat advisory regarding brute-forcing attacks aimed at exploiting weak passwords used on Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) database servers exposed to the internet. It is clear that the intrusions analyzed by the firm stand out for their misuse of an auxiliary known as SQLPS.exe, a tool […]

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