{"id":44983,"date":"2022-01-25T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/sophos-log4shell-would-have-been-a-catastrophe-without-the-y2k-esque-mobilisation-of-engineers\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:32:11","slug":"sophos-log4shell-would-have-been-a-catastrophe-without-the-y2k-esque-mobilisation-of-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/sophos-log4shell-would-have-been-a-catastrophe-without-the-y2k-esque-mobilisation-of-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-malware outfit Sophos has weighed in<\/a> on Log4Shell, saying that the galvanization of the IT world to avert disaster would be familiar to those who lived through the Y2K era.<\/p>\n

The Log4Shell vulnerability<\/a> turned up in the common-as-muck Apache Log4j logging library late last year. As a remote code execution (RCE) flaw, miscreants wasted no time in exploiting it following its disclosure.<\/p>\n

However, the IT community promptly responded by patching it. “As soon as details of the Log4Shell bug became clear,” explained Sophos, “the world’s biggest and most important cloud services, software packages and enterprises took action to steer away from the iceberg.”<\/p>\n