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January has been a rough month for anyone that a.) uses the popular MongoDB database software, and b.) doesn’t really know how to secure it. A flurry of ransomware attacks have targeted the platform, taking advantage of installations that have the administrator account configured without a password. When we initially covered it, around 10,500 systems had been compromised. That number rather swiftly soared to almost 30,000, as the number of hacking groups targeting MongoDB increased exponentially. One of the groups that targeted MongoDB, called Kraken0, is now selling their exploit code, in a move that all-but guarantees to increase the number…

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