Analysis from vulnerability intelligence firm VulnCheck shows AI-discovered flaws aren't being exploited any faster than traditional ones.

Researchers said the vulnerabilities, which attackers are chaining together, were first exploited three weeks before the vendor disclosed and patched the defects.

A vulnerability that meets all four criteria would need to be fixed within three days, for instance.

Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report uncovered a surge of exploited vulnerabilities, and a growing lack of critical defect remediation industrywide.

Attackers are hitting a frequent target in the network edge space, intruding victim networks through a defect in a widely used mobile endpoint security product.

Cisco’s response to the latest SD-WAN and firewall defects has been fast, but the harder question is how long sophisticated actors had a head start — and…

Shadowserver scans have identified 86 compromised instances, and researchers warn multiple threat groups are involved.

Attackers have exploited the critical defect to reconfigure firewall settings and create unauthorized accounts with privileged access to multiple versions of the vendor’s security products.

Researchers warn that half of the exposed vulnerable instances remain unpatched as in-the-wild exploitation grows rapidly.

Microsoft closed out the year with 1,139 total defects patched, making it the second-largest year in volume behind 2020, according to Trend Micro.