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UPDATE Log4j BSI: Extremely critical vulnerability in the Java library
Log4j Log4shell

The BSI publishes an update on their report: "Red warning level: Log4Shell vulnerability leads to an extremely critical threat situation" with new findings and further developments. According to the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the vulnerability called "Log4Shell" in the widely used Java library Log4j continues to lead to a critical IT security situation. The BSI provides up-to-date information on its special page on Log4j at . There is still no conclusive clarity as to which IT products are vulnerable to "Log4Shell". The Dutch partner authority of the BSI maintains an overview of the vulnerability status of numerous IT products,…

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Log4j alarm: Bitdefender Labs with first Log4Shell balance
Log4j Log4shell

The experts at Bitdefender Labs report an initial assessment of Log4j and Log4Shell: Hackers are intensively looking for vulnerabilities. A Tor concealment of the accesses to real endpoints makes Germany the seemingly number one country of origin of the attacks. Bitdefender counted 36.000 hits on honeypots in seven days. The Log4Shell vulnerability has been actively exploited by Apache as CVE-9-2021 since it was disclosed on December 2021, 44228. The results are amazing. Most of the attack attempts seem to come from western industrialized countries such as Germany, the USA and the Netherlands, but apparently some of them hide their origin behind exit nodes of the Tor network. That puts ...

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