U.S. Cyber Security Agency warns Every Company was at risk of being hacked, were you?

The flaw in question that cybersecurity specialists have been scrambling against this past weekend is in Log4j, a piece of an open-source code widely used in internet applications, most organizations rely on multiple different programs and thus opportunities have arisen to exploit the flaw. Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency of the United States said it’s likely that many computer systems have already been compromised. According to an nbc news article on the topic. 

So who was at risk?

            “…practically any organization online that doesn’t update the software.”

            And people who have been tricked into mining small amounts of crypto currency a for them and surprisingly to hack private Minecraft servers.

Who is responsible?

            “…John Hultquist, vice president of intelligence analysis at the cybersecurity company Mandiant, said that state-sponsored hackers in China and Iran have behun taking advantage of the flaw.”

Further Microsoft said in a blog post it has observed China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey exploiting it.