MySQL Honeypot Results

To follow-up on the Shadowserver Foundation report that over 3.6 million MySQL databases have open port accessible on the Internet, we create a MySQL port 3306 honeypot to see what types of scans and attacks we would attract. We only setup a server instance with port 3306 open as the honeypot test server.

In just a week, there were over 41k events, and 158 attacks from all over the world.

Attackers tried to exploit known vulnerabilities. In this case CVE-2020-11899.

If you are still concerned about securing your MySQL database, check our free MySQL port scanning tool. If your database port is exposed to the Internet without IP allowed list protection, hackers could use brute force or known vulnerabilities to access your data.

With Remote.It's single line of code - Connectivity as Code - solution, you can remote your database or any other shared resource from the public Internet. Read about how Remote.It solves connectivity problems for Developers.

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• AWS‍
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• ‍‍Google Cloud

‍Have a self-hosted database? We support that as well with options for Windows and Linux distributions

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If you have resources that have exposed ports and IP addresses, read this Dev.to article with mitigation suggestions.