Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily Updates on Log4shell, now being exploited in the wild. India PMs Twitter account is hijacked. Extortion at Brazils Ministry of Health and Volvo. Phishing sites lifespan. Sentence passed.

Updates on Log4shell, now being exploited in the wild. India PMs Twitter account is hijacked. Extortion at Brazils Ministry of Health and Volvo. Phishing sites lifespan. Sentence passed.

Published: Dec. 13, 2021, 9:15 p.m.

The Log4shell vulnerability is trouble, and its remediation isn\u2019t going to be quick or easy. In India, Prime Minister Modi\u2019s Twitter account was hijacked. Official Brazilian COVID vaccination data bases are stolen and rendered unavailable. Extortionists claim to have taken sensitive, proprietary R&D information from Volvo. Phishing sites appear and vanish in a matter of hours. Rick the Toolman Howard expands his cast of characters. Robert M. Lee from Dragos shines a light on solar storms and risk management. And sentence is passed in a case related to the Kelihos botnet.\n\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/10/237\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices