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Hackers Abuse Microsoft SQL Servers to Deploy Monero Miner and Gh0st RAT

Hackers target weak Microsoft SQL Server passwords to install a Monero miner and Gh0st RAT, using database features to run ...
CSO Online

Hackers abuse SQL Server’s weak passwords to drop cryptominers and Gh0st RAT

Attackers are brute-forcing internet-facing Microsoft SQL Server instances and abusing T-SQL commands to deploy a Monero ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Weak Passwords Expose SQL Servers to Cryptominer and Gh0st RAT

A campaign has been breaking into internet-facing Microsoft SQL Server instances with weak passwords to install a Monero cryptominer and a Gh0st remote access trojan (RAT).
Computerworld

How to fetch a file from FTP and import into SQL Server automatically

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...
Redmond

Using the FTP Task in an SSIS Package

When designing SSIS packages, you will find that you often have to pull data from many different sources. Although FTP is an older technology, it's one that hasn't quite lost its way in modern IT ...
BleepingComputer

Hackers abuse FTP server banners to deliver new Windows malware

Threat actors are abusing FTP banners to hide commands that deliver two previously undocumented remote access trojans named E4del and PINHOLE. MalwareHunterTeam observed this unusual technique in July ...