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Grey Noise Intelligence Dives Deep into the Cybersecurity Landscape with its 2022 Mass Exploitation Report

Summary: GreyNoise Intelligence released its inaugural 2022 Mass Exploitation Report, covering the most significant threat detection events of the past 12 months. The company added over 230 new detection tags in 2022, an increase of approximately 38% from 2021, and its VP of Research & Data Science, Bob Rudis, said many vulnerabilities that garner media attention turn out to be insignificant.

Bottom line: GreyNoise's premise is that media attention and actual mass exploitation diverge, so patching priority based on headlines can misdirect effort; its 38% jump in detection tags is the volume of new activity analysts are being asked to sort through.

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