Australian government issues advisory on increased cyber activity from a state-based state actor. Attackers target Telerik user interface vulnerabilities in public-facing infrastructure with remote code execution exploits. Unofficial blame finger points to China, senior sources tell Australia s ABC News that China may have a hand in it. This is the fourth warning this year (1, 2, 3, 4) from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) about threat actors exploiting critical vulnerabilities. The attacker also exploited a VIEWSTATE deserialization vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
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