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    Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @travisdh1
      last edited by

      @travisdh1 said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

      Time to break out the backups.

      That pretty much sums it up.

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      • CloudKnightC
        CloudKnight
        last edited by

        ouch....

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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco
          last edited by

          All your database are belong to us. Um, them.

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          • Reid CooperR
            Reid Cooper @JaredBusch
            last edited by

            @JaredBusch said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

            @donaldlandru someone is screwed.

            Assuming no backups and that it has sensitive data. Might just be Wordpress posts and public already.

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            • donaldlandruD
              donaldlandru @Reid Cooper
              last edited by

              @Reid-Cooper said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

              @JaredBusch said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

              @donaldlandru someone is screwed.

              Assuming no backups and that it has sensitive data. Might just be Wordpress posts and public already.

              Nah they had backups. Not Wordpress lol

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                1337
                last edited by 1337

                Sound like this one:
                https://www.csoonline.com/article/3174306/ransomware-attacks-targeted-hundreds-of-mysql-databases.html

                According to the article it's a brute force attack on root account of the mysql database.

                A little more info:
                https://www.guardicore.com/2017/02/0-2-btc-strikes-back-now-attacking-mysql-databases/

                Looks like the database is erased without being dumped somewhere so no sense in paying anything.

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                • dbeatoD
                  dbeato
                  last edited by

                  What Database type was this? an RDS or hosted inside a server?

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @dbeato
                    last edited by

                    @dbeato said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                    What Database type was this? an RDS or hosted inside a server?

                    .....

                    @donaldlandru said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                    This client uses AWS hosted database and found this over the weekend.

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                    • dbeatoD
                      dbeato @JaredBusch
                      last edited by

                      @JaredBusch said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                      @dbeato said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                      What Database type was this? an RDS or hosted inside a server?

                      .....

                      @donaldlandru said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                      This client uses AWS hosted database and found this over the weekend.

                      Still very ambiguous...

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                        @JaredBusch said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                        @dbeato said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                        What Database type was this? an RDS or hosted inside a server?

                        .....

                        @donaldlandru said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

                        This client uses AWS hosted database and found this over the weekend.

                        Assuming that means the SaaS AWS packages and not something else, AWS offers seven categories and 15 unique database options

                        https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/

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                        • Emad RE
                          Emad R
                          last edited by Emad R

                          Yup, restore from backups. ARe you using old Drupal or Wordpress Site or shared hosting like TMD ?

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                          • JaredBuschJ
                            JaredBusch
                            last edited by

                            FFS already.

                            All of you just need to stop. This is nothing that @donaldlandru needs to do.

                            This is not his database.

                            He has no credentials to AWS.

                            He has no credentials to the database with access beyond read only.

                            His company has zero liability or issues.

                            They should have their legal team in on this meeting in the morning.

                            Because this accusation is complete and utter bullshit.

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                            • dbeatoD
                              dbeato @JaredBusch
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                              @JaredBusch Yes, you were correct and we discussed this last night on the Telegram group 🙂 .

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