F5 Labs, using Efflux sensor telemetry, found that HTTP requests hitting its sensors rose from 5,125,557 in 2023 to 8,727,820 in 2024 (about 71%, or nearly 95% once normalized for sensor count). Most of the increase came from the BotPoke scanner, which looks for filenames associated with malware distribution sites. It was active mainly in…
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…