"GreyNoise Intelligence Dives Deep into the Cybersecurity Landscape with its 2022 Mass Exploitation Report"
GreyNoise Intelligence, a cybersecurity firm that analyzes Internet scanning traffic to distinguish threats from background noise, has released its inaugural 2022 Mass Exploitation Report, a research report delving into the most significant threat detection events over the past 12 months. In 2022, GreyNoise added more than 230 new detection tags, representing a 38 percent increase from 2021. For its 2022 Mass Exploitation Report, GreyNoise researchers offer insights into an F5 Big-IP iControl REST Authentication Bypass vulnerability, a critical weakness in Atlassian Confluence, and the impact of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog updates on defenders. Bob Rudis, GreyNoise's vice president of data science, provides predictions for 2023 in the 2022 Mass Exploitation Report, in addition to insights on the most notable threat detection events of 2022. Rudis predicts daily, ongoing Internet-facing exploit efforts, an increase in post-initial-access internal attacks, and at least a few Log4j-centric attacks making headlines. This article continues to discuss some key findings from the GreyNoise 2022 Mass Exploitation Report.