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2 days agoOver 1,400 MongoDB Databases Ransacked by Threat Actor
1,416 of 3,100 internet-exposed MongoDB databases were compromised and replaced with ransom notes demanding about $500 in Bitcoin per incident.
Ollama provides a framework that makes it possible to run large language models locally, on a desktop machine or server. Cisco decided to research it because, in the words of Senior Incident Response Architect Dr. Giannis Tziakouris, Ollama has "gained popularity for its ease of use and local deployment capabilities." Talos researchers used the Shodan scanning tool to find unsecured Ollama servers, and spotted over 1,100, around 20 percent of which are "actively hosting models susceptible to unauthorized access."