MassMiner is self-replicating through a number of different exploits also perform brute-force attack to compromise and access the Microsoft SQL Servers. It infected many countries including India, Germany, Colombia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, China, Venezuela. MassScan is a fork of MassScan, a tool that can scan the internet in under 6 minutes. The MassScan fork passes a list of IP ranges to scan during execution, which includes private and public IP ranges. Researchers discovered this propagation via honeypot network.”]
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