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Yaara Shriki

Yaara Shriki
Yaara is a security researcher at Team Nautilus, Aqua's research team, with a specialized focus on cloud security and data research. She is exploring novel ways to blend machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) into her work. Yaara is currently pursuing an MSc in computer science at Tel Aviv University.
Three Years Later: The Meow Campaign Reaches Jupyter

Three Years Later: The Meow Campaign Reaches Jupyter

In 2017 and 2020 we saw the oddest campaign - ‘Meow’ - targeting unsecured databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, CouchDB, and other software such as Hadoop clusters, FTPs, Jenkins etc. The Modus Operandi was very simple finding an exposed instance, deleting everything, and destroying data without any …

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