Quote:Researchers uncovered a massive attack on Windows running Microsoft SQL servers by a group of hackers using the new wave of long-running attack campaign called Vollgar.


Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft with 3rd most used Popular Database Platforms deployed in various organization networks around the globe.

This massive long-running attack campaign observed back to 2018 via the honeypot system, since then it was continuously attacking thousand of internet-facing MS-SQL servers for the past two years.

Researchers observed that the Vollgar campaign originated in more than 120 IP addresses and the most of the hits comes from China. some of the attacks initiated from the IP’s that are short lived and the couple of IP’s are living more than 3 months.

“Threat actors are attempting to various forms of attack including password brute force to breach victim machines, deploys multiple backdoors and executes numerous malicious modules, such as multi-functional remote access tools (RATs) and crypto miners”. researchers from Guardicore told GBHackers.