Early on Jan. 9, about 12,000 MongoDB database servers were compromised. Later the number rose to 28,000 servers. As many as 46,000 servers are vulnerable to this attack.
A cyber-criminal using the alias “Harak1r1” exploited a weakness in the default installation of the popular database solution, MongoDB. He demanded a 0.2BTC ransom ($220) to return the data he exfiltrated from thousands of victim systems. Older installations of MongoDB that were deployed via cloud hosting services in an insecure default configuration were ...
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SHA-1 or Secure Hashing Algorithm 1 was developed in 1993 by the National Security Agency (NSA). It has been used to provide both hashing functions and digital signatures that validate that a certain document, web site, or other resource is genuine, original, and unchanged.
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Some of the nastiest exploits going around are the many variants of the CryptoLocker and CryptoWall malware that encrypt all your personal files and hold them for ransom. Payment in bitcoin is required, in amounts starting at $200 and ranging upward to the $17,000 (400 BTC) that Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital just paid to unlock their files. Or even more. The amount will be whatever the attackers think they can extract from the victim.