An attack called Mongo Lock is targeting remotely accessible and unprotected MongoDB databases, wiping them, and then demanding a ransom in order to get the contents back. While this new campaign is ...

Ransomware recently struck some unsecured MongoDB installations and held the data to ransom. Here, we will introduce MongoDB and examine some steps you can take to secure and protect its database.

Over 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases have been deleted over the past three weeks, with only a message left behind asking the owners of the databases to contact the cyber-extortionists to have the ...