According to the Fortinet Q2 2017 Global Threat Landscape, 90% of businesses, The companies have encountered cyber-attacks throughout which intruders attempted to utilize vulnerabilities that were three years or older. In extension, 60% of companies were attacked with exploits ten years or older.
Businesses that did a comparably good job at keeping systems reinforced would have been able to prevent the attacks.
Nonetheless, it is always suggested that businesses keep systems up to date at all extents. This has been shown in the past year. First last year with a Joomla defect that saw exploit tries days after being published, then again at the start of January when critics started looking for a recently disclosed WordPress flaw hours after the formal announcement.
The focus on older exploits is easy to explain. Not all hackers are on the equivalent skill level of nation-state cyber-espionage units, and most rely on open-sourced exploits. The older the vulnerability, the greater the chances of getting a working exploit on one of the several exploit-sharing sites currently open online.
There are a few simple reasons for these. First, there are no SIRT (Security Incident Response Team) responders at largest businesses over the weekend. Second, most hackers hold jobs as well, and the weekend is when utmost are free for “side activities.”
Also this week, Akamai delivered the State of the Internet/Security Report for Q2 2017. The release contains statistics on a wide class of web attacks that took site via the company’s infrastructure in April, May, and June.
The report’s central finding is the rise in the amount of DDoS attacks through the first half of 2017 after DDoS attacks went down through the second half of 2016.
According to Akamai, the announcement of the Mirai DDoS malware source code in September 2016 helped fan new life into a declining DDoS booter market.
Since then, a lot of different botnets built on the Mirai source code has been located, many of which were given as DDoS-for-hire services.
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