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Beware Of This Internet Cat’s Meow—It Destroys Databases
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What is the Meow bot?
Meow bot appears to exist purely to destroy those databases that leave themselves open and exposed online without any security access controls. So-called because the automated attack script overwrites database indexes with random numerical strings with "meow" appended.

This action, which appears to hit both exposed Elasticsearch and MongoDB instances, effectively wipes the data from the database.
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