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Chinese Hackers Infect Over 50,000 Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers Worldwide with 20 Different Payloads

A new China-based campaign dubbed Nansh0u targets Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers worldwide. The attack campaign primarily targets servers belonging to the healthcare, telecommunications, media, and IT sectors. Guardicore Labs detected the campaign at the beginning of April, but the attacks found dating back to February 26. Throughout the campaign threat actors used 20 different […]

Black Hat SEO Campaign Leverages SQL Injections to Boost Search Rankings

A new type of black hat SEO campaign has been uncovered in the last few months by Akamai’s experts, who have observed that an attacker is using SQL injection flaws to deface websites with hidden content, specifically aimed at improving his website’s SEO ranking. The campaign has targeted around 3,800 different websites, hosted on 348 […]