Researchers spotted a new cryptomining threat conducting brute-force attacks using 100 percent of Internet Information Services IIS/Structured Query Language (SQL) Microsoft Windows servers compute resources. The malware, called KingMiner, is designed not to steal information but to harvest cryptocurrencies such as Monero. Israel, Norway, Mexico and India are among the countries where the threat has successfully infected Windows machines, according to the researchers at Check Point. The researchers noted that the threat is likely to continue its evolution based on placeholders they found in the code for future updates and versions.”]