Google and Microsoft had the most vulnerabilities in the first half of 2021

guest · Sep 18, 2021

Google and Microsoft had the most vulnerabilities in the first half of 2021
September 16, 2021
https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/16/...st-vulnerabilities-in-the-first-half-of-2021/

Google and Microsoft accumulated the most vulnerabilities in the first half of 2021, according to findings from Atlas VPN. Although not all exposures can cause critical damage, hackers could exploit some of them for severe attacks.

Google had 547 accumulated vulnerabilities throughout the first half of 2021. Exploiting Google products like Chrome is popular among cybercriminals. More than 3 billion people use the browser, meaning that more internet users can become victims of the exploits.
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Next up, the second most exposures were found in Microsoft products — 432. State-sponsored threat actors from China abused Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities to carry out ransomware attacks. Other attackers would drop cryptocurrency miners from the post-exploit web shells.

Oracle registered 316 total vulnerabilities in the first six months of 2021.
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Some vulnerabilities stand out due to their particular relevance or danger. For example, in the first half of 2021, there were 1,023 vulnerabilities found with a risk level of 10. One of the exploits that applied to such a level is CVE-2021-22986, with a score of 9.8.
The vulnerability was found in the security company’s F5, BIG-IP, and BIG-IQ services. Successful exploitation of the flaw allowed to take complete control of the system.
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atlasVPN: Google and Microsoft accumulated the most vulnerabilities in H1 2021

The data is based on Telefonica Tech Cybersecurity Report 2021 H1. The report analyzes mobile security and the most common vulnerabilities in today’s cybersecurity landscape.
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Networking hardware company Cisco accumulated 200 vulnerabilities. Lastly, the producer of software for the management of business processes SAP had 118 exploits in total.
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National Vulnerability Database (NVD) issued risk tier 9 to 927 vulnerabilities.

NVD recorded most vulnerabilities at a risk tier of 8 — 2,164. A notable exploit was CVE-2021-24092, with a score of 7.8. The flaw was found in Windows Defender early this year, however, it had remained undiscovered for 12 years.

Finally, NVD recorded 501 vulnerabilities at risk tier 7. While second-most vulnerabilities — 1,765 — were found at tier 6. Flaws given a lower score are either not dangerous or hardly exploitable.
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EASTER · Sep 18, 2021

Well better now than later. (WannaCry being the poster child) It gives them both golden opportunities since identification of the methods and their results are reachable, reactable if not repairable, and the lower tolerance threshold is been brought to the forefront for them to do more that just compensate. AKA: Patches

Therein rests a good work order for Research & Development teams to reinitialize more formidable preventions. Oh we user's/customers know it's customary to seem most difficult for them at times, but those recent stats may change their feelings it's not quite as elusive as things first seem. The same applies to ALL software developers too.

By the way @mood - NICE new avatar. Very fitting.

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