This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented them.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that there has been an uptick in ransomware for MongoDB and Elasticsearch deployments. Recently, we’re seeing the same for MySQL.
Let’s look and see if this is MySQL’s fault.
Other Ransomware Targets
Let’s briefly touch on how Elasticsearch and MongoDB became easy targets…
Elasticsearch
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