Financially motivated Turkish hackers are targeting Microsoft SQL servers in the United States, Europe and Latin America in hacking that ultimately ends with
Misconfigured Microsoft SQL database servers in the U.S., Latin America, and the European Union have been targeted by a Turkish hacking operation with Mimic ransomware, also known as N3ww4v3, as part of the RE#TURGENCE attack campaign, reports BleepingComputer.
Microsoft's database continues to attract cybercriminal attention; the nature of this wave's threat group is unknown, with the attacks having been exposed only after a happenstance OpSec lag.