The article of Rhein zeitung from December 23.12.2021rd, 4, reports this time about the LogXNUMXj vulnerability that is currently keeping companies in suspense.
"The Internet is on fire" is the central statement of co-founder Immanuel Bär. Tim Schughart adds with the words "The actual dimensions and extent of damage are not yet foreseeable".
The bottom line is that everyone can be affected by the Log4j vulnerability as the vulnerability resides in standard applications and devices that rely on Java. in one Video we show the connections in detail.
Private users are still lucky at the moment and don't need to panic, according to Tim Schughart. Caution with online banking or the entry of sensitive data should be available anyway. Saving passwords for convenience should be avoided.
However, hackers usually use sources where it is really worth stealing sensitive data. Large companies are the first point of contact to create the basis for blackmail through theft.
The article in the Rhein-Zeitung reports on this from the large companies Debeka and CompuGroup from Koblenz. Both companies had to gradually update affected servers. Critical services and internal networks affected by attacks have been temporarily shut down.
The first wave of attacks on the new Log4j vulnerability ended lightly, but that doesn't mean anything. “We are still at the very beginning” is how Tim Schughart describes the most recent incidents.
