These included groups using Tsunami and Mirai-malware that turns devices into botnets, or networks used to launch remotely controlled hacks such as denial of service attacks. Researchers at SentinelOne have also told media that they have observed Chinese hackers taking advantage of the vulnerability.Īccording to Check Point, nearly half of all attacks have been conducted by known cyber attackers. Mandiant’s Carmakal said that Chinese state-backed actors were also attempting to exploit the Log4J bug but declined to share further details. Both these weaknesses were initially exploited by state-backed espionage groups from China and Russia respectively.
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Advertisementįurther Reading Microsoft discovers critical SolarWinds zero-day under active attackThe vulnerability is the latest to hit corporate networks, after the emergence of flaws in the past year in commonly used software from Microsoft and IT company SolarWinds. Amazon, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco are among those that have rushed to put out fixes, but no severe breaches have been reported publicly so far.
Hundreds of millions of devices are likely to be affected, she said.Ĭheck Point said that in many cases, the hackers were taking control of computers to use them to mine cryptocurrency, or to become part of botnets, vast networks of computers that can be used to overwhelm websites with traffic, to send spam, or for other illegal purposes.īoth CISA and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre have now issued alerts urging organizations to make upgrades related to the Log4J vulnerability, as experts attempt to assess the fallout. Jen Easterly, director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), told industry executives that the vulnerability was “one of the most serious I’ve seen in my entire career, if not the most serious,” according to US media reports. The flaw in Log4J allows attackers to easily gain remote control over computers running apps in Java, a popular programming language. Perpetrators include “Chinese government attackers,” according to Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer of cyber company Mandiant.
Further Reading Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the InternetHackers including Chinese state-backed groups have launched more than 840,000 attacks on companies globally since last Friday, according to researchers, through a previously unnoticed vulnerability in a widely used piece of open-source software called Log4J.Ĭyber security group Check Point said the attacks relating to the vulnerability had accelerated in the 72 hours since Friday, and that at some points its researchers were seeing more than 100 attacks a minute.
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