Five Eyes intelligence agencies are warning of a rapidly evolving cyber storm that could hit everyone from gamers to big and small businesses, hospitals, transport and power systems.
“This is an evolving situation, and new vulnerabilities are being discovered,” the Australian, United States, United Kingdom, Canadian and New Zealand agencies have warned in an alert.
“The ACSC has observed malicious cyber actors using this vulnerability to target and compromise systems globally and in Australia,” the Australian Cyber Security Centre told AAP on Friday.
The joint alert issued out of the US said the vulnerabilities, especially Log4Shell, are “severe”.
The Log4Shell vulnerability affects software used by millions of Australians, often unknowingly, on their home and work computers, phones, apps, online games or when saving data in the cloud.
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