Security researchers have recently detected an increased number of attacks against Elasticsearch clusters running older versions with known vulnerabilities. At least six different groups of attackers are searching for and exploiting insecure deployments to abuse servers.

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Elasticsearch is a distributed search engine platform written in Java designed for processing large data sets. It is commonly used in companies and organizations that work with big data.

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