F5 Labs, using Efflux sensor telemetry, reports that CVE-2023-1389, an RCE in TP-Link Archer AX21 routers, was the most scanned-for CVE in December 2024 for the fifth consecutive month, with traffic far above any other tracked CVE. Other heavily scanned flaws include CVE-2022-24847 (GeoServer), CVE-2022-22947 (Spring Cloud Gateway), CVE-2…
Rapid7's Q3 2026 threat landscape report finds that high-severity vulnerabilities were exploited an average of three days after disclosure, with 71% exploited within the first seven days. 79% of them are classed as 'holy grail' flaws, meaning remote and needing no credentials or user interaction. Ransomware remains the dominant threat. Th…
TrendAI™ (Trend Micro) published its H1 2026 APT Activity Roundup on July 29, 2026. It finds nation-state actors used AI in more stages of the intrusion lifecycle than in any prior half-year the company has tracked. China-aligned actors used generative AI to refine exploits and iteratively build malware through "vibe coding", and one AI a…
The weekly InfoStealers report for 12-19 October 2026 summarises stealer-log telemetry on compromised machines, credentials and sessions. The United States ranks 8 by country of infection with 438 machines. Gmail is the most affected email provider with 1,225,748 users, followed by Hotmail (90,554) and Yahoo (33,493). Sessions and saved c…
Infoblox attributes the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least April 2017, to Hotejka, a small Russian-language affiliate program that appears to be a rebrand of ROI777 (exposed in 2018). The TDS fingerprints visitors and redirects them to browser-lock tech support scams that push victims to call centers,…
F5 Labs reports a scanning campaign observed on its Honeynet in March 2026. It recorded 1,897 session-grouped attempts (2,821 raw events) tied to CVE-2018-14028, a WordPress 4.9.7 unrestricted file upload flaw, and the CVE entered the monthly top 10 after being absent in February. Instead of exploiting the upload flaw, the operator probes…
F5 Labs honeynet telemetry shows overall hostile activity rising 55.5% month over month in June 2026, a return to the levels of the earlier-year spike. Highlighted is CVE-2024-44000, an unauthenticated account takeover flaw (CVSS 9.8, CWE-522) in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin, which rose by 1,128 to 2,603 attacks (8). Scanning is i…
A New Jersey court has ordered radaris.com and 13 other domains in the Radaris family of people-search sites transferred to Atlas Data Privacy Corp. The ruling came after the defendants repeatedly failed to appear and defend a suit alleging violations of Daniel's Law, which requires data brokers to remove personal information of law enfor…
INTERPOL announced the results of Operation Serengeti III on 22 October 2026. The coordinated action ran from June 29 to August 31, 2026 and targeted business email compromise (BEC), ransomware and online scams. It led to 1,462 arrests, the disruption of 10,909 malicious networks and the recovery of more than $105 million (bleepingcompute…