The Ransoming of Elasticsearch
Posted by Ben Hundley January 12, 2017Early this morning, users around the world reported hacks of their unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. A data ransoming group attacked vulnerable clusters they found on cloud providers. This follows the widely reported instances of tens of thousands of MongoDB databases being ransomed last week. Copycats virally spread the ransoming, and the copycatting has now apparently spread to Elasticsearch.