BOSTON: Security pros say it’s one of the worst computer vulnerabilities they’ve ever seen. They say state-backed Chinese and Iranian hackers and rogue cryptocurrency miners have already seized on it.
The US Department of Homeland Security is sounding a dire alarm, ordering federal agencies to urgently eliminate the bug because it’s so easily exploitable – and telling those with public-facing networks to put up firewalls if they can’t be sure. The affected software is small and often undocumented.
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