MAD-CAT Meow Attack Tool to Simulate Real-World Data Corruption Attacks

MAD-CAT (Meow Attack Data Corruption Automation Tool) targets MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, CouchDB, and Hadoop HDFS, exactly the systems hit in the original wave. This persistent threat inspired security researcher Karl Biron of Trustwave to create MAD-CAT, a Python-based tool for simulating these destructive campaigns across six vulnerable database platforms. While the notorious Meow attacks […]

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