Zafran Security Incident

Get a Demo Required fields are marked with an asterisk * Skip to main content Introducing the Zafran Detector: Continuous vulnerability discovery, no new agents Read More Close Announcement Banner Vulnerability Exploitation in 2024 Author: Yonatan Keller Published on January 8, 2025 Blog 2024 will be remembered as an important chapter in cybersecurity, especially with regards to the rapidly shifting vulnerability landscape. While this blog doesnt aim to recount every detail or provide a full-fledged analysis, it does highlight some of the years most significant vulnerability exploitations. From large-scale campaigns and the rise of new threat actors, to remarkable law enforcement takedowns, record-setting ransomware payments, and the global CrowdStrike outage that disrupted millions, 2024 brought both progress and peril. Perhaps the most concerning takeaway is the widening gap between attackers and defenders, with adversaries outpacing defenses at an accelerating rate, eventually with the help of AI. Read on for a closer look. 1. A year of audacious cyber attacks The cybersecurity landscape in 2024 has been marked by increasingly audacious attacks, with threat actors demonstrating a new level of boldness and sophistication. Among other events, 2024 will be remembered for Salt Typhoon infiltrating nine major U.S. telecom companies and compromising sensitive communications data and federal wiretapping systems; Russia's APT29 breach of Microsoft's Azure, gaining access to source code repositories and internal systems; and particularly devastating attacks targeting the healthcare sector, such as the ransomware attacks against Change Healthcare (compromising 100 million individuals) and Ascension (disrupting 140 hospitals). Notably, all 3 of these sectors, Healthcare, IT, and Communications, are among the 16 USA critical infrastructure sectors listed by CISA. 2. Attackers tactics are accelerating The rapid exploitation of vulnerabilities intensified and accelerated...

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