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This past Sunday, three different IP addresses were executing malicious commands on targetendpoints.

The attacks, he added, have since stopped.

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In other cases, hackers were using the vulnerability for lateral movement.

In multiple attack chains, Rapid7 observed post-exploitation command execution to download a malicious payload hosted at 193.43.72[.

]11 and/or 193.176.179[.

]41, which, if successful, led to single-system Cerber ransomware deployment on the exploited Confluence server.

Users are advised to apply the fix immediately.

ViaArsTechnica

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