Insights into Vulnerabilities 4.1 Overall Trend The National Vulnerability Database had recorded 15,800 CVE vulnerabilities for 2018, including 4096 high-risk ones. Compared with 2017, the total number of vulnerabilities found in 2018 increased 8.2%, while the number of high-risk ones dropped by 4.8%. Although the number of vulnerabilities increased steadily, they did so slowly, possibly […]
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at November 10, 2019.
3.3 Recidivists “Recidivists” here refer to attack sources found to repeatedly engage in malicious activities. In the 2018 H1 Cybersecurity Insights, we pointed out that 25% of recidivists were responsible for 40% of attack events24. Considering the quantity and level of threat, these attackers should not be underestimated. By the end of 2018, the number […]
1 Overview On April 18, 2019 a hacker/hacker organization sold a toolkit of the APT34 group, under the false name of Lab Dookhtegan, on a Telegram channel. The organization also posted screenshots of the tool’s backend panels, where victim data had been collected. Early in the middle of March 2019, this hacker/hacker organization had released […]
Overall Cybersecurity Situation 3.1 Attack Type Distribution Based on attack type13, DDoS contained the largest proportion of malicious IP addresses; more than half were involved in DDoS attacks. Other types of attacks that malicious IP addresses participated in included botnets, scanning, and spam.
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at October 27, 2019.
Key Findings Finding 1 The interval between disclosure of a vulnerability and successful exploitation of this vulnerability was shortened to hours, posing the greatest challenge to traditional security operations.
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at October 20, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Laos is in first place. The Uzbekistan is in the second place. The country China (CN) is not […]
Executive Summary It has been 31 years since China sent its first email to the world on September 14, 1987, thus triggering the development of the Internet in the country. From the Consumer Internet and the Industrial Internet to the Internet of Things, the Internet has been increasingly changing the way we communicate and do […]
