MongoDB ransom attacks continue to plague administrators

Posted by bob on Jan 30, 2017 11:21 PM CST
CSO Online; By Steve Ragan 		Mail this story
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Earlier this month, Salted Hash reported on a surge in attacks against publicly accessible MongoDB installations. Since January 3, the day of that first report, the number of victims has climbed from about 200 databases to more than 40,000. In addition to MongoDB, those responsible for the attacks have started targeting Elasticsearch and CouchDB.

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