Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the Log4j logging platform on systems running Apache software that is written in Java and utilizes the log4j library. Critical systems will be impacted.

The vulnerability affects not only Java-based applications and services that use the library directly, but also many other popular Java components and development frameworks that rely on it. Attackers ...

statements, however. The logging system can add contextual information—filename, line number, and date, for example—to the message automatically. You can redirect the messages to different ...

A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the widely used Java logging library Apache Log4j is easy to exploit and enables attackers to gain full control of affected servers. Tracked as ...

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging company boards to start asking key questions about how prepared they are to mitigate and remediate the ...

Update (December 14 ,2021): We’ve updated this article with information about the new Log4j version release, along with new exploit vectors, and risks related to all Java versions. While you were ...

A vulnerability so dangerous that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure (CISA) Director Jen Easterly called it “one of the most serious [she’s] seen in [her] entire career, if not the most serious” arrived ...

Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios has released an emergency Minecraft security update to address a critical bug in the Apache Log4j Java logging library used by the game's Java Edition ...

Healthcare sector organizations, like entities across other industries, are being warned by federal authorities and others to carefully assess how the recently identified severe remote code execution ...

Some threat actors exploiting the Apache Log4j vulnerability have switched from LDAP callback URLs to RMI or even used both in a single request for maximum chances of success. As expected, ...