Threat Spotlight: Unpatched software vulnerabilities

guest · Jul 25, 2021

Alarming number of attacks probing for unpatched software vulnerabilities, warms cybersecurity firm
There has been regular probing for CVE-2021-21972 with some downturn in scanning
July 25, 2021
https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...-warms-cybersecurity-firm/article35521091.ece

There has been a significant rise in cyber attacks probing for unpatched software vulnerabilities I'm devices, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Barracuda.

These attacks are looking for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities for which a security update is yet to be installed.
While analysing the data from the attacks blocked by their systems over the past two months, Barracuda researchers have identified hundreds of thousands of automated scans and attacks per day, with the numbers sometimes spiking into the millions.
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There has been regular probing for CVE-2021-21972 with some downturn in the scanning.

Murali Urs, Country Manager-Barracuda Networks India said, “Software vulnerabilities, especially hard-hitting ones, continue being scanned for and have been exploited for quite some time after the release of patches and mitigations."
[...] We are expecting to see some uptick in the scans from time to time as attackers move through the list of known high-impact vulnerabilities," Urs said.
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Barracuda: Threat Spotlight: Unpatched software vulnerabilities

Software vulnerabilities are gifts that keep on giving. Even a few years after vulnerabilities are discovered, the number of systems that are still open to the internet while vulnerable to known defects is alarming

Recently, Barracuda researchers analyzed the data from the attacks blocked by Barracuda systems over the past two months and found hundreds of thousands of automated scans and attacks per day, with those numbers sometimes spiking into the millions, and as well as thousands of scans per day for the recently patched Microsoft and VMware vulnerabilities.

Here’s a closer look at the attack patterns our researchers uncovered, and steps you can take to help protect against these types of attacks.
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