on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:30PM from the time-out dept. AltMachine writes: "Chinese regulators on Wednesday suspended an information-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud Computing , a subsidiary of e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group, over accusations it failed to promptly report and address [ the Log4Shell vulnerability ]," reports Reuters, citing state-backed media reports. Alibaba Cloud recently discovered a major remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j2 component, notifying the U.S.-based Apache Software Foundation, but did not immediately report it to Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT,) China's telecommunications regulator. MIIT said it then received a report from a third...