Exposed PostgreSQL instances are the target of an ongoing campaign designed to gain unauthorized access and deploy cryptocurrency miners.
Cloud security firm Wiz said the activity is a variant of an intrusion set that was first flagged by Aqua Security in August 2024 that involved the use of a malware strain dubbed PG_MEM. The campaign has been attributed to a threat actor Wiz tracks as
Researchers have uncovered a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability, CVE-2025-1094, affecting PostgreSQL’s interactive terminal tool, psql. This flaw was identified during research into the exploitation of CVE-2024-12356, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote…
Threat actors who were behind the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products in December 2024 likely also exploited a previously unknown SQL injection flaw in PostgreSQL, according to findings from Rapid7.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-1094 (CVSS score: 8.1), affects the PostgreSQL interactive tool psql.
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