---
id: 3292
title: "Ongoing coverage of wide-scale ransom attack in progress: How to protect Internet-facing data stores"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/ongoing-coverage-of-wide-scale-ransom-attack-in-progress-how-to-protect-internet-facing-data-stores/"
published_at: "2017-01-15T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["data-security", "ransomware", "casey-ellis", "mongodb", "elasticsearch", "hadoop"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3292"
lang: en
---

# Ongoing coverage of wide-scale ransom attack in progress: How to protect Internet-facing data stores

## Summary

Casey Ellis covers ransom attacks wiping internet-facing datastores—34,000+ MongoDB databases erased, 1,600 Elasticsearch clusters hit—urging backups, authentication, isolation and IP whitelisting.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2017-01-15T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/ongoing-coverage-of-wide-scale-ransom-attack-in-progress-how-to-protect-internet-facing-data-stores/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3292