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Another open source database has been targeted for attack. Only this time, paying the ransom isn't even an option. Instead, the perpetrators just destroy the database, sometimes leaving a nasty message before moving on. This makes these attacks a very odd subcategory of “ransomware.”
Only weeks after the attacks began on BongoDB, the new attacks were reported by Fidelis Cybersecurity just last week. Fidelis is estimating that 8,000-10,000 installations worldwide might be affected.
What is Hadoop?
Hadoop is a framework managed by the Apache Software Foundation that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It cab scale up to thousands of systems -- providing an extreme level of availability. But, like MongoDB, its default security configuration leaves much responsibility to those implementing it.
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