Over 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases have been deleted over the past three weeks, with only a message left behind asking the owners of the databases to contact the cyber-extortionists to have the ...

Data breaches and exposures have become so common these days, it's difficult to keep track of them all, much less step back to mull a solution. But, perhaps out of necessity, researchers from the ...

MongoHQ, which provides hosting and support for the open-source Mongo database, said attackers may have accessed several of its customers’ databases earlier this week. On Monday, someone accessed an ...

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 ...

A Dutch security researcher has stumbled upon the Kremlin's backdoor account that the government had been using to access the servers of local and foreign businesses operating in Russia. Also: MongoDB ...