Re: Security Attack

Good evening,

thanks. I also believe as well that encrypt datafiles the classical ransomware style would result in immediate denial of service.

Regards

Lothar

Am 08.01.2024 um 18:57 schrieb Douglas Dunyan:
> Greetings Lothar !
>
>   I am not personally aware of news articles or blogs providing that
> level of detail of ransomware events.
>
>   The ransomware events I am aware of, have only been via Microsoft
> platforms.  Because Oracle Databases can run on Microsoft platforms,
> depending on the attack vectors, it's conceivable to me that datafiles
> *could* become victims.
>    I would also expect, once an Oracle File ( data, temp, control,
> online log, etc) was encrypted, the alert log would begin to log
> errors, and depending on which files, potentially crash the database.
>
>   Additionally, because it is possible to access storage typically
> accessed by NFS services, any file systems mounted to Microsoft
> platforms with write access are at risk as well.
>
>   I am not aware of ransomware attacks upon *nix platforms, but I
> expect they do exist.
>
> HTH
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 3:24 AM Lothar Flatz <l.flatz_at_bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
> HI,
>
> was there every a ransomeware attack were an Oracle Database got
> encrypted?
> Do not share ideas, just references to public available arcticles,
> please.
> I could not find any.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lothar
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