Learnings From The Meow Bot Attack on Our MongoDB Databases

Written by ranipmohapatra | Published 2020/11/22
Tech Story Tags: mongodb | cybersecurity | meow-attack | authentication | hacking | security | mongodb-bot-attack | mongodb-database-security

TLDR The Meow Bot Attack on Our MongoDB Databases is a scripted bot attack that scrambles the data & indexes of victim Mongo databases by overriding it with numbers and appending the string ‘meow’ Attackers have an ironic sense of humor! Find out more about meow here. The attack was triggered by a vulnerability-2.2 vulnerability-1.1. The company was using an IBM Cloud Classic Virtual Server to test its MongoDB databases. It was time to secure the setup for our internet facing Mongo databases.via the TL;DR App
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Written by ranipmohapatra | Experimenting & Architecting IT Solutions for enterprise clients. Love using technology to help non-profits.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/11/22
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