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Over 27,000 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom Within A Week

🗓️ 09 Jan 2017 01:47:00Reported by Mohit KumarType 
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Over 27,000 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom Within A Week. Ransomware attacks on poorly secured MongoDB installations are doubling daily, with over 27,000 databases compromised. Attackers are accessing, copying, and deleting unpatched or badly-configured databases, demanding ransoms of up to 1 Bitcoin. Administrators with misconfigured MongoDB databases are responsible for the attacks

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09 Jan 2017 16:44Current
6.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.8
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