Description. analysis of ASEC’s ASD logs for Q1 2026 showed a consistent trend of attacks against MS-SQL and MySQL. the number of attacks tended to decrease temporarily in February before increasing again in March. Purpose and Scope. this report summarizes the statistics of attacks targeting MS-SQL and MySQL servers installed on Windows and the malware […]

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 servers, based on the logs […]

AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) previously covered the case of threat actors exploiting the GeoServer vulnerability to install CoinMiner and NetCat through the “CoinMiner Attacks Exploiting GeoServer Vulnerability” blog. [1] The threat actors have been continuously targeting vulnerable GeoServers to install CoinMiner. This post will cover the identified cases of CoinMiner installation.   1. GeoServer […]