On the 16th of December, the United States government released a statement that hackers affiliated to the governments of China, North Korea, and Turkey have moved to exploit a severe vulnerability in software used by major technology companies throughout the world.
Experimentation with the flaw, integration into established hacking tools, and “exploitation against targets to meet the actor’s aims” are among the activities carried out by foreign hacker groups, as reported by CNN.
A software vulnerability has recently been discovered, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and this could compromise hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.
In response to the threat, CISA has instructed all federal and civilian entities to upgrade their software. The vulnerability is in the Java-based program “Log4j,” which is used by enterprises all over the world to log data in their applications. From Cisco to Amazon Web Services to IBM, the list of vulnerable software vendors reads like a who’s who of tech behemoths. Despite the fact that US officials are on high alert as a result of the software weakness, Eric Goldstein, a senior CISA officer, told the media that there was no proof that federal networks had been hacked using this vulnerability.
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