Affected Software A significant number of Java-based applications are using log4j as their logging utility and are vulnerable to this CVE. To the best of our knowledge, at least the following software may be impacted: Apache Struts Apache Solr Apache Druid Apache Flink ElasticSearch Flume Apache Dubbo Logstash Kafka Spring-Boot-starter-log4j2 So you can see that … Read more
Due to an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability: https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/extremely-critical-log4j-vulnerability.html This bug is a 10 of 10 on the CVSS rating from the article a snippet: Tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and by the monikers Log4Shell or LogJam, the issue concerns a case of unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE) on any application that uses the open-source utility and affects … Read more
2 stories from the Hacker News: Solar Winds Hackers Targeting Government and Why everyone needs to take the latest CISA directive seriously The Solarwinds hack from last year (the one I discussed in several stories including this one: SolarWinds hackers Hacked Multi-factor Authentication. It is sometimes instructive to review past hacks to see what … Read more
Certitute has a story that shows what happens when you decide for one reason or another not to update your Exchange server Apparently somebody did not update the Exchange server (which runs the email for the company). So when the system is not updated it becomes vulnerable of various vulnerabilities. From the story: The IIS … Read more
Yes now your files will be hidden (apparently they will be placed in a Winrar format – which is a kind of packed encrypted format). And then the original files are deleted. There are more details in the Sophos analysis a their blogpost. How about this attack? KrebsonSecurity has an interesting story about a Nigerian … Read more
