Log4Shell: A retrospective

Now that the dust has settled on both the holiday season and the Log4j vulnerability that saw many of us working through it (CVE-2021-44228), it makes sense to look back and take stock of how things played out. What strategies worked in the face of one… Continue reading Log4Shell: A retrospective

Is there any way to find out if a Logitech Unifying Receiver vulnerability was exploited?

Is there any way to find out if any of the vulnerabilities of older Logitech Unifying Receiver firmware was exploited? I’m referring to the vulnerabilities listed here including these.
On GNU/Linux/Debian it can be patched with fwupdmgr up… Continue reading Is there any way to find out if a Logitech Unifying Receiver vulnerability was exploited?

ufw logs BLOCKS from 2 sites while BLOCK logging is completely disabled for ALL sites [migrated]

Logging is enabled. Only allow rules are logged. The very last line of my firewall rules is:
Anywhere DENY Anywhere

No logging is asked for, however two IPs repeatedly show up in my firewall logs as blocked:
Dec… Continue reading ufw logs BLOCKS from 2 sites while BLOCK logging is completely disabled for ALL sites [migrated]

Log4Shell update: Attack surface, attacks in the wild, mitigation and remediation

Several days have passed since the dramatic reveal of CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell), an easily exploitable (without authentication) RCE flaw in Apache Log4j, a popular open-source Java-based logging utility that’s seemingly used by most enterpri… Continue reading Log4Shell update: Attack surface, attacks in the wild, mitigation and remediation

Critical RCE 0day in Apache Log4j library exploited in the wild (CVE-2021-44228)

A critical zero-day vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228), a widely used Java logging library, is being leveraged by attackers in the wild – for now, fortunately, primarily to deliver coin miners. Reported to the Apache Software Foundati… Continue reading Critical RCE 0day in Apache Log4j library exploited in the wild (CVE-2021-44228)