Security News > 2023 > April > Data-backed insights for future-proof cybersecurity strategies

In this Help Net Security interview, Travis Smith, VP of the Qualys TRU, talks about the 2023 Qualys TruRisk Threat Research Report, which provides security teams with data-backed insights to help them better understand how adversaries exploit vulnerabilities and render attacks.

What tactics have threat actors used to exploit the most critical vulnerabilities, and what can organizations do to protect themselves?

While the 2023 TruRisk Research report conducted an in-depth review of the top 163 vulnerabilities, there were an additional 500 vulnerabilities released prior to 2022 that were weaponized or exploited for the first time in 2022.

While threat actors add new and novel vulnerabilities to their Swiss Army Knife of tools, they also target older unpatched vulnerabilities similarly.

Vulnerabilities known to be leveraged by named threat actors were remediated eight days faster than those without association with known threat actors.

The major differentiator between vulnerabilities found in Windows and Chrome versus the larger set of weaponized vulnerabilities was the maturity of the patching processes.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/04/12/2023-qualys-trurisk-threat-research-report/