Elasticsearch Honeypot Snares 8,000 Attacks Against RCE Vulnerability

From ThreatPost:


Elasticsearch Honeypot Snares 8,000 Attacks Against RCE Vulnerability


Hackers have taken an interest in Elasticsearch, a popular enterprise search engine.


A researcher based in Texas, whose own Elasticsearch server was hacked, today published results collated from a honeypot he built to get a sense of how widespread attacks are against the vulnerability that did in his server.