Smash-and-Seize Extortion Jul 10, 2024 IoT Safety / Firmware Safety The Downside The "2024 Attack Intelligence Report" from the employees at Rapid7 [1] is a well-researched, well-written report that’s worthy of cautious examine. Some key takeaways are:  53% of the over 30 new vulnerabilities that have been broadly exploited in 2023 and firstly of 2024 have been zero-days . Extra mass compromise occasions arose from zero-day vulnerabilities than from n-day vulnerabilities. Almost 1 / 4 of widespread assaults have been zero-day assaults the place a single adversary compromised dozens to a whole lot of organizations concurrently. Attackers are shifting from preliminary entry to exploitation in minutes or hours relatively than days or perhaps weeks. So the traditional patch and put technique is as efficient as a firetruck displaying up after a constructing has burned to the bottom! After all, patch and put might forestall future assaults, however bearing in mind that patch improvement takes from days to weeks [2] and that the typical time to use important patches is 16 days [3], units are vulner