An examination of a recently captured ARM binary revealed the adaptation of CVE-2021-44228 to infect and assist in the proliferation of malware used by the Mirai botnet . As mentioned in previous Akamai blogs , CVE-2021-44228 is an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Log4j. \r\n This vulnerability impacts multiple versions of Log4j and the applications that depend on it. These include Apache Struts2, Apache Solr, Apache Druid, Apache Flink, and many others. As mentioned before, patching against this vulnerability is strongly encouraged, and Akamai has deployed rulesets to customers that will help mitigate attacks.…