Mirai Botnet Abusing Log4j Vulnerability
Threat Researcher Larry Cashdollar has discovered evidence of the Mirai botnet abusing Log4j vulnerability and shares code examples.
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A Log4j Retrospective Part 4: 5 Lessons Learned from Log4j
Read about strategies to help protect against new and more impactful security threats and vulnerabilities in Log4j from Akamai CTO Charlie Gero.
A Log4j Retrospective Part 3: Evolution ? Payloads and Attack Diversification
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Kali’s stable Docker image is now named kali-last-release
Here is a very quick announcement for users of the Kali Linux Docker Images.
Until recently we used to have a Docker image named simply kali, and it was built from the last versioned release of Kali (e.g. 2019.4, 2020.1, etc.) matching our “kali-…
The Face Your Fear Challenge Winner Has Been Selected!
In October 2021, YourLocalSecurity set out to find one brave soul to face their biggest fear head-on. After reading through all the applications, one person with a fear of gnomes caught our eye. “I have been absolutely terrified of garden gnomes since …
Discover and Announce: A Serverless Location Application Built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect
Learn about Discover and Announce, a 100% serverless application built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect, which can run entirely on the Akamai edge.
A Log4j Retrospective Part 2: Data Exfiltration and Remote Code Execution Exploits
Akamai CTO Charlie Gero shows how the Log4j threat surface could extend to unpatchable embedded and IoT devices.
Installing Rogue-jndi on Kali Linux
Following the previous tutorial in which we looked at the log4j vulnerability in VMWare vSphere server, I got some questions about how to set up a malicious LDAP server on Linux. The attacker controlled LDAP server is required to provide the malicious …
Abuse and Fraud Prevention’s Co-Created Future ? Predictions for 2022 and Beyond
Explore some of the Akamai Abuse and Fraud Prevention team?s predictions for the future of abuse and fraud protection in 2022 and beyond.
A Log4j Retrospective Part 1: Vulnerability Background
Learn about the widely used Java-based logging library Log4j and how its vulnerability and other capabilities presented a major opportunity to attackers.