There have been over 840,000 attacks on companies since Friday (Dec. 10) due to a vulnerability in the open-source Log4j software, Ars Technica reported.
Check Point, a cybersecurity firm, said cyberattack reports had sped up since Friday when the vulnerability was noticed, according to the report. Log4j is a widely used software. The vulnerability lets hackers force computers to download unauthorized software. At some points, there were over 100 attacks a minute.
Mandiant Chief Technology Officer Charles Carmakal said in the report that the perpetrators included “Chinese government attackers.”
The hackers in many cases had been taking control of computers, using them to mine cryptocurrency, the report stated. They also used…