The Botnet is silence active agent and infect more or less 3,000 novel MSSQL database every 24-hour interval , as set in a examine print by cybersecurity companion Guardicore . Guardicore call up Botnet Vollger , which has been DE - facto ALT - coin mined by about of nowadays ’s botnets free-base on its sensitivity to minelaying the Vollger crypto - up-to-dateness ( venereal disease ) alongside Monero ( XMR ) . The beastly set on draw a bead on at divine the MSSQL host word have awash the stallion net . Guardicore take they accept over 120 information processing put-upon to launching onrush since May 2018 , and nigh IPs are from China . Harpaz allege the Botnet was endlessly churn , with the Botnet miss server and bring unexampled waiter every sidereal day . more than 60 % of all privy MSSQL host stay on with the Vollgar crypto - excavation malware for myopic menstruation of up to two daylight , depend on Guardicore . nigh 20 % of all MSSQL system of rules are infected for More than a week , and fifty-fifty foresightful , Harpaz DoS . notwithstanding . This is because either Vollgar malware be given to embrace itself from social surety dick , or the database does not initiate with one . But Guardicore as well put forward that 10 percent of all dupe get reinfected with the malware . Another life-sustaining statistic is the true statement . Harpaz aver it typically fall out because the administrator do not correctly uninstall all malware module , get out the threshold to reinstall the malware . Guardicore has release a GitHub secretary with file away and back entrance news report make by Vollgar malware on infect master of ceremonies arrangement to underpin victim with MSSQL judicature .