Weekly Cyber Security News 24/12/2021

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Anyone fancy a bit of a challenge? USA citizens only though…

• The DHS is inviting hackers to break into its systems, but there are rules of engagement

Any one want to make predictions on who we will see being hit? The tree will be well and truly shaken in the coming weeks:

• Conti Ransomware Gang Has Full Log4Shell Attack Chain – Conti has become the first professional-grade, sophisticated ransomware group to weaponize Log4j2, now with a full attack chain.

Now this is utter mad. Cool though and I wonder if someone will find a way to use it:

• This image looks very different on Apple devices – see for yourself