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    Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?

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

      @donaldlandru Should've used stronger password and 2fa.

      That is not how anything works.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @DustinB3403
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        @DustinB3403 said in Database held for ransom, anyone experience this before?:

        Wipe and reload, and of course immediately change the password to something stronger.

        That, or more likely IMO, cleanup the shit code that let them gain access through a SQL injection.

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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
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                  @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
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                      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
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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.

                          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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