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File integrity monitoring, patching, key defence.
Criminals are ransoming database backups, after compromising web applications to change databases' encryption settings.
Detailed by security consultancy High-Tech Bridge, the attacks start with an attack on a web site that yeilds acess to a database server.
Once in, attackers change the encryption settings used by the database and store the key on an HTTPS server somewhere, an operation that apparently escapes some admins' attention.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=RANSOMWARE
Criminals are ransoming database backups, after compromising web applications to change databases' encryption settings.
Detailed by security consultancy High-Tech Bridge, the attacks start with an attack on a web site that yeilds acess to a database server.
Once in, attackers change the encryption settings used by the database and store the key on an HTTPS server somewhere, an operation that apparently escapes some admins' attention.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=RANSOMWARE