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MongoDB Attack Shows Off Cyber Extortionists’ New Tricks
A cluster of attacks against MongoDB servers that has affected more than half of Internet-facing MongoDB databases is taking the cyber extortion game into a whole new direction. The truly troubling part about this spate of attacks is how easily these opportunistic attacks were able to spread, says Elliott Abraham, senior security architect at Adapture.