Helped uncover a massive cyber incident today affecting multiple residential complexes and built in switches and infrastructure.
It appears the attackers were trying to reroute and intercept numerous individuals WFH residential traffic.
Add this to your threat list
Residential complexes have their own built in routing for fiber.
After plugging in a new device into the residential facility preconfigured using ISP setup, after 24 hours noticed unknown devices being directly connected to subnet of the victims router.
Victims router was then exploited and administrative password was changed, additional devices were allowed by MAC address to join subnet of targeted victim
Looking over pcaps revealed that entire network in residential was turned into a flat network with no guest isolation.
#log4j theoretical worm depending on propegation speed might just blend in with the noise for a while.
Ideally right now reducing attack surface should be everyone's top priority
Unfortunately we are dealing with a bug with unprecedented vectors.
Everyone right now shouldn't even focus on worm capabilities because exploitation is so wide spread right now it doesn't even increase your risk level, attackers are doing nearly identical to what worm activity would be like.
Traffic congestion and network bottlenecking tho...
Historically if we look at worm activity it took roughly a week to 14 days for them to be widespread & developed
However those in the past didn't use logic flaws & required memory corruption exploits which are less reliable & complex payloads.
#Log4J based on what I've seen, there is evidence that a worm will be developed for this in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Self propagating with the ability to stand up a self hosted server on compromised endpoints.
In addition to spraying traffic, dropping files, it will have c2c
Biggest hurdle appears to be implementing a JDK gadget to enable code execution on limited env.
That is currently being researched by several groups.
Honestly I'm kinda surprised it isn't finished yet, but I have seen at least 3 groups (Eastern euro, .ru and .cn) that are investigating options to do this.
Goals appear varied: financial gain via extortion as well as selling access to compromised hosts to RaaS groups