Tag: Top Risks
It seems like threat actors everywhere could detect my impatience last month when I wrote that not much had changed among the 70-odd CVEs that we track for attack trends, because last month they did something. Actually, to be more precise, they stopped doing some things. This is the first month since September 2022 that…
Read MoreConclusions This month we were able to add seven newly observed CVEs to our list of confirmed exploited vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-4940, a directory traversal vulnerability in the Axigen Free Mail Server. CVE-2016-4945, a cross-site scripting flaw in Citrix Netscaler Gateway CVE-2017-11511 and CVE-2017-11512, arbitrary file download flaws at different URIs in the Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk tool…
Read MoreWelcome back to the Sensor Intelligence Series, our recurring monthly summary of vulnerability intelligence based on distributed passive sensor data. We’ll start off this month’s analysis with a look at some activity from the August dataset, which demonstrates some of the oddities we occasionally see, and then dig into the changes we saw in September…
Read MoreFrom January to April 2023, Healthcare had the highest levels of unwanted Web automation. However, this automation saw a significant decrease in May 2023 before rebounding in June. The Hospitality industry has seen a steady increase in automation starting off as the eighth most targeted industry in January 2023 with 11.7% automation. This peaked in…
Read MoreIn contrast, identity providers in media, retail, and travel tended to see higher overlap, particularly among bot traffic in the travel industry. (High overlaps for aggregators in media and retail are skewed by a comparatively miniscule number of accounts submitted.) The technology industry showed narrow distributions for all three categories, which partly reflects the fact…
Read MoreWelcome to the dedicated Executive Summary for our 2023 Identity Threat Report. Here we’ve brought together the bullet-list style summary that opens the full report, as well as a few curated selections and charts to get immediately to the “what do I need to know” of it all. And of course, if you want to…
Read MoreOverall Scanning Traffic Changes Lest the downward trend shown in Figure 2 makes it seem like overall scanning traffic may be abating, it’s important to note that the volume of scanning we observed has remained relatively constant, at least over the last three months, increasing by approximately 5.1% from August to September, then falling approximately…
Read MoreZooming Out to Look at 2023 One of the questions we frequently get asked about this data is about attribution, that is, who is doing the scanning. This is a difficult question, because it is quite well understood that many threat actors take great pains to do at least a bit of obfuscation of their…
Read MoreThis view is also notable since it is the first time we’re seeing any of these newly added, high-profile CVEs show up. Second row, far right is CVE-2014-6271, an OS command injection vulnerability more commonly known as Shellshock/Bashdoor. Shellshock shows more targeting variability from month to month than most CVEs (not including CVE-2020-11625, which has…
Read MoreAfter analyzing traffic from 159 bot defense customers, this review found that in the absence of a bot defense solution, Mobile APIs experience significantly more automation than Web applications. However, once a bot defense solution is deployed in mitigation/blocking mode, we see a reversal, with Web having higher levels of persistent attacks despite consistent mitigation.…
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