Threats and Vulnerabilities: What’s Old is New Again

guest · Apr 26, 2019

Threats and Vulnerabilities: What’s Old is New Again
April 26, 2019
https://www.fidelissecurity.com/threatgeek/threats-and-vulnerabilities

However, in addition to staying current with new threat campaigns and techniques, our intelligence team feels it’s also imperative to ensure we don’t lose focus on previously identified and existing threats.
Fidelis Q1 2019 Statistics and Intelligence Support to Telemetry Observations
In reviewing our quarterly statistics and trends research, one of the key findings we identified was that over 27% of the alerts in Q1 2019 were related to exploits, vulnerabilities, or malware that came out in 2017 or earlier.
From these, we observed that many of them consisted of old tools and malware families including Conficker, PlugX, H-W0rm, and njRAT

In addition to older tools and kits observed, Fidelis TRT also observed multiple vulnerability compromise attempts and alerts, many from 2017 or earlier. For Q1 2019, the top five (5) vulnerabilities observed to be targeted were: [...]

Deep and dark web observations* also showed a continued interest by threat actors and vendors to offer services, tools, or exploits that target popular “older” vulnerabilities.
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