Network Security Trends: May-July 2022
Summary: Unit 42 researchers reported that 5,976 new CVEs were registered from May to July 2022, and that 76.5% of the analyzed vulnerabilities were remote rather than local, meaning they can be exploited over a network. The researchers analyzed 340 million valid malicious sessions observed through Palo Alto Networks firewalls and found remote code execution was the most prevalent attack category, followed by information disclosure, with most attacks appearing to originate from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands.
Bottom line: Nearly three-quarters of the newly published vulnerabilities could be attacked from anywhere in the world, and attackers concentrated on remote code execution above all other categories - so the patch backlog on internet-facing systems is the exposure that matters most.
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