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Cybercriminals Hold 1,200 Unsecured Elasticsearch Databases for Ransom

June 2, 2022

Over 1,200 databases that could be accessed without authentication have already fallen victim to the attackers, which replaced their indexes with a note demanding a payment of 0.012 Bitcoin in exchange for the data.

“In each case, data held in the databases was replaced with a ransom note stored in the ‘message’ field of an index called ‘read_me_to_recover_database’. Inside the ’email’ field is a contact email address,” Secureworks notes.

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