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Re: Security Attack

From: Danny B <dbryant_at_dbaontap.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 17:13:32 -0500
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You might check for municipalities that have been attacked. In 2018 the City of Atlanta was hit with a Ransomware attack which was covered quite extensively. They did have Oracle ERP so maybe ….


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On Jan 8, 2024, at 13:47, Lothar Flatz <l.flatz_at_bluewin.ch> wrote:



  
    
  
  
    
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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