CrowdStrike researchers report the detection of a hacking group operating from China and that has managed to infiltrate an academic institution by exploiting one of the flaws found in the Log4j logging library. The group was identified as Aquatic Panda and described as an advanced intelligence and espionage operation, active for at least a year and a half. For now it is unknown what the exact goal of this group is, since the attack was interrupted; however, Aquatic Panda was found to generate persistence in the affected systems in order to gain access to intellectual property and other samples of…