Exploits stories

Azul's inaugural State of Java survey highlights Java's vital role in global tech, with 98% of firms reporting usage.

Cequence Security offers first-ever API protection on the HPE GreenLake Marketplace, promoting visibility, reduced costs, and minimised business risks.

An attacker attempted to exploit the open-source community by uploading a series of malicious packages to the PyPi package manager.

Recorded Future's monthly report reveals high-risk vulnerabilities, exploit chains, and zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft and Ivanti products.

Critical hijacking vulnerability in Stremio 4.4 puts 5 million users at risk; remote code execution and information theft possible.

Claroty’s research arm, Team82, has disclosed five vulnerabilities in NETGEAR’s RAX30 routers they discovered at the Pwn2Own Toronto hacking competition.

Rapid7 Vulnerability Intelligence Report finds attackers developing and deploying exploits faster, with an 87% increase in first-week exploitation since 2020.

Secureworks has found that the Iranian threat group, Cobalt Sapling, has reemerged with a new persona, Abraham's Ax.

Claroty's research team, Team82, has examined the GE Proficy Historian, finding five exploitable vulnerabilities capable of causing damage to the system.

GreyNoise Intelligence unveils its 2022 Mass Exploitation Report, delving deep into threat detection events from the past year.

Almost 300 loan apps found in Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Colombia, and Mexico exhibit predatory behavior, says Lookout.

Attackers are advancing to keep pace with cloud adoption and response time, according to a new report from Lacework.

The exploitation in remote services has become the primary initial access vector in ransomware attacks over the past year.

In terms of the share of vulnerabilities with publicly available exploits, three countries out of top five are located in Southeast Asia.

Threat activity has spiked in Q2 2022, with malware events rising by 25%, botnets doubling, and exploit activity growing almost 150%, says Nuspire's report.

One constant that remains as organisations approach a sense of normalcy after a disruptive year is that cyber criminals continue to target and exploit people.

Nuspire's Q1 2022 Threat Report reveals surge in threat actor activity as new vulnerabilities emerge. Mirai, STRRAT and Emotet see a resurgence.

Attackers exploit weak WiFi, remote endpoints, and the cloud, costing 50% of organisations over $1.3 million in breach damages.

Malware, botnet, and exploit activity increased in Q1 2022, according to a report by managed security services provider Nuspire.

WordPress vulnerabilities have more than doubled in 2021, with 77% of them being exploitable, according to Risk Based Security.

The widely-used java logging library, log4j, has been actively exploited, according to an update from CERT NZ and Catalyst.

84% of companies have high-risk vulnerabilities on their network perimeter, with half of them fixable through software updates, says Positive Technologies.

Radiflow, the company that provides cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation networks, has launched a business driven industrial risk analytics service known as iRISK.

Microsoft has announced the Speculative Execution Side Channel Bounty Program that is offering up to USD$250,000 to people who reveal novel bugs.