By Eduard Kovacs on October 28, 2015 Malicious actors have been using a Trojan dubbed “Chikdos” to infect MySQL servers and abuse them to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The Chikdos malware, first documented by Poland’s CERT, has been around since 2013. The threat is designed to hijack both Linux and Windows machines and use them to launch DDoS attacks.
According to Symantec, the latest versions of the threat are not much different compared to the early variants analyzed by CERT Poland. In the attacks observed recently by the security firm, the attackers have been targeting MySQL servers, most likely because they are widespread and they have large bandwidth that can be very useful for DDoS attacks. Full Article
"Chikdos" Malware Abuses MySQL Servers for DDoS Attacks
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