The Ransomnews Research Team’s five-year study, spanning from May 2021 to May 2026, analyzed over 65,000 exposed databases, finding that 46.3% contained ransom or wipe notes.
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14 old software bugs that took way too long to squash
In 2021, a vulnerability was revealed in a system that lay at the foundation of modern computing. An attacker could force the system to execute arbitrary code. Shockingly, the vulnerable code was almost 54 years old — and there was no patch available, and no expectation that one would be forthcoming. Fortunately, that’s because the…