ODBParser - OSINT Tool To Search, Parse And Dump Only The Open Elasticsearch And MongoDB Directories That Have The Data You Care About Exposing

ODBParser is a tool to search for PII being exposed in open databases. ONLY to be used to identify exposed PII and warn server owners of irresponsible database maintenance OR to query databases you have permission to access! PLEASE USE RESPONSIBLY What is this? Wrote this as wanted to create...

Business in the front, party in the back: backdoors in elastic servers expose private data

It seems like every day we read another article about a data breach or leak of cloud storage exposing millions of users' data. The unfortunate truth is that the majority of these leaks require no actual "hacking" on the part of the attacker. Most of the time, this highly confidential data is just...

LeakLooker - Find Open Databases With Shodan

Find open databases with Shodan Background: https://medium.com/@wojciech/leaklooker-find-open-databases-in-a-second-9da4249c8472 Requirements: Python 3 Shodan paid plan, except Kibana search Put yourShodan API key in line 65 pip3 install shodan pip3 install colorama pip3 install hurry.filesize...

'Anonymous' FTP Servers Leaving Healthcare Data Exposed

Hackers craving personal health care information are targeting exposed FTP servers. The FBI issued a warning last week that focused on an increase in criminal activity targeting FTP servers used by medical and dental organizations that are configured to allow anonymous access without...

Open Databases a Juicy Extortion Target

Recent attacks against insecure MongoDB, Hadoop and CouchDB installations represent a new phase in online extortion, born from ransomware’s roots with the promise of becoming a nemesis for years to come. “These types of attacks have grown from ones of opportunity to full-scale automated and...

Hadoop, CouchDB Next Targets in Wave of Database Attacks

Insecure Hadoop and CouchDB installations are the latest targets of cybercriminals who are hijacking and deleting data. Last week, security researchers said 28,000 MongoDB and Elasticsearch installations were hacked in a new wave of attacks against unprotected open source data management platform...