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US cyber security officials see mainly low-impact attacks from logging flaw

By Joseph Menn

Dec 16 2021 6:54AM

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US cyber security officials see mainly low-impact attacks from logging flaw

The US agency charged with defending the country against hacking said the majority of attacks it has seen using a recently disclosed flaw in widely used open-source software were minor, with many of them seeking to hijack computing power to mine cryptocurrency. Officials at the Cybersecurit...

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