The BSI, Germany’s cybersecurity regulator, reportedly issued a red alert warning at the weekend over a flawed software.
The watchdog revealed that a vulnerability in a widely-used software posed an “extremely critical threat” to web servers, said a report by Reuters.
The news agency said the vulnerability was found in a Java-based library called Log4j.
According to the report, BSI said in a statement on its website that this could be exploited in a way that would enable a total takeover of the impacted system.
"The reason for this assessment is the very wide distribution of the affected product and the associated impact on countless other products. The vulnerability is also easily exploitable, and a proof-of-concept is publicly available," the BSI said, as reported by Reuters. "The BSI is aware of world- and Germany-wide mass scans as well as attempted compromises. Initial successful compromises are also being publicly reported,"
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