Of all the security issues that have appeared over the last few years, none has had the impact of the Log4j exploit. Also called the Log4Shell, it was reported to the developers, the Apache Software Foundation, on 24 November, 2021, by the Chinese tech giant Alibaba and it took two weeks to develop and release a fix. The existence of the Log4j exploit was first publicly published in a tweet by Chen Zhaojun, a cyber security researcher with the Alibaba Cloud Security team on December 9, 2021

The annual HITB+CyberWeek 2021, under the four pillars of Hacking, Making, Building, and Breaking, the event will include a recognized panel of international experts to analyze the industry’s shifting landscape.

As the final threat report of the year 2020, it also comes with commentary on the broader trends observed throughout the year as well as predictions for 2021 by ESET malware research and detection specialists.