By Ionut Arghire on December 29, 2021
China-linked cyberespionage group Aquatic Panda was recently observed exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability to compromise a large academic institution, CrowdStrike’s Falcon OverWatch team reports.
Tracked as CVE 2021-44228 and also referred to as Log4Shell and LogJam, the security hole affects the Apache Log4j Java logging framework and has been exploited in targeted attacks since early December.