Open source database provider MongoDB has confirmed to Infosecurity that the victims of a new wave of ransom attacks last week had no password protection for their admin accounts. As many as 76,000 ...

Ransomware recently struck some unsecured MongoDB installations and held the data to ransom. Here, we will introduce MongoDB and examine some steps you can take to secure and protect its database.

Two years after hacker groups began ransacking MongoDB databases and requesting ransom payments, the practice is still very much alive, ZDNet has learned this week. While the original hacker groups ...