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Experts monitor ongoing attacks using exploits for Log4j library flaws

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Researchers from DrWeb monitored attacks leveraging exploits for vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library. Researchers from DrWeb monitored attacks leveraging exploits for vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE2021-4104, and CVE-2021-42550) in the Apache Log4j library warning of the need to adopt protective measures.

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Two Linux botnets already exploit Log4Shell flaw in Log4j

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Immediately after the disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw in Log4j library threat actors started including the exploit code in Linux botnets. Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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New Go-based Redigo malware targets Redis servers

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Among the data they receive, they now know which server’s version is vulnerable to CVE-2022-0543 (As we explained earlier, the honeypot was built with this vulnerability on purpose). The attacking server that is defined as the master uses this connection to download the shared library exp_lin.so to the disk of the replica.

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Log4Shell was in the wild at least nine days before public disclosure

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Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467

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As a result, like with many supply chain libraries, the impact of this vulnerability could be severe if leveraged by threat actors.” The experts pointed out that almost all of these are honeypots. reads the report published by SonicWall. The researchers pointed out that Apache OFBiz is not a hugely popular software.

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Hackers exploit Jenkins flaw CVE-2018-1000861 to Kerberods malware

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Marinho noticed some attacks hit one of his honeypots attempting to exploit this Jenkins vulnerability to deliver the Kerberods cryptominer. “After analyzing the threat which attacked one of my honeypots, I created the diagram shown in the picture below. . The flaw could be chained with other issued to get remote code execution.

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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

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The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux. “The malware is uploaded as gzip compressed tarball archives of binaries, scripts, and libraries. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.” ” wrote Cashdollar.

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