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Introduction Welcome to the September 2024 installment of the Sensor Intelligence Series, our monthly summary of vulnerability intelligence based on distributed passive sensor data. Following on from our last month’s analysis, scanning CVE-2017-9841 continues to drop, falling by 10% compared to August, and now down 99.8% from its high-water mark in June of 2024, and…
Read MoreIntroduction Welcome to the August 2024 installment of the Sensor Intelligence Series, our monthly summary of vulnerability intelligence based on distributed passive sensor data. Last month, we observed the scanning for CVE-2017-9841 fell sharply, and this month is no different, with scanning for that vulnerability falling another 79% from July’s rate. Overall, it’s down 97.4%…
Read MoreIntroduction Welcome to the July 2024 installment of the Sensor Intelligence Series, our monthly summary of vulnerability intelligence based on distributed passive sensor data. Last month we observed a massive increase in scanning for CVE-2017-9841 as well as continued increases in scanning for CVE-2023-1389 and scanning for a newly discovered PHP vulnerability – CVE-2024-4577. This…
Read MoreNote the large increase in the number of unique source IPs and source ASNs. Between May and June, 38 different source ASNs dropped from the scanning activity, and 179 were added. This is unusual. While scanners will abandon infrastructure as takedowns happen, or access is revoked, they typically do not make such massive changes without…
Read MoreF5 Labs published the first edition of our annual Application Protection Report in July 2018. For that report, we collaborated with Whitehat Security, Loryka, the Ponemon Institute, and Whatcom Community College’s Cybersecurity Center to analyze a wide range of data from 2017, and offer a comprehensive breakdown on the threats, tactics, vulnerabilities and impacts facing…
Read MoreConclusion Campaigns aimed at mining cryptocurrency and targeting Oracle WebLogic are clearly on the rise, and F5 researchers anticipate this trend to continue. This has been fueled partly by the zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-2725)found in April 2019. Oracle WebLogic is used widely by large corporations, and the servers are resource-intensive. This attracts threat actors looking to…
Read MoreAfter a few days of monitoring the channel, the bot master noticed our activity and registered the nicknames of the admins and white-listed the IRC clients allowed to join the network. This prevented us from pretending to be admins and controlling the bots. During our research, the botnet peaked at around 350 bots, which is…
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