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Top 10 vulnerabilities used by cybercriminals


Recorded Future released a report revealing the top 10 vulnerabilities exploited by cybercriminals in 2017. Microsoft and Adobe products accounted for all 10 with seven belonging to the former and three the latter company. 

According to the report, the most commonly abused vulnerability last year was CVE-2017-0199, a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office and WordPad that is associated with a wide variety of malware and exploits, including Latentbot, Microsoft Word Intruder, Hancitor, Dridex, FinFisher, Silent Doc Exploit, REMOCS, PoohMilke, Freenki, FreeMilk and Cerber.


Bradley Barth

As director of multimedia content strategy at CyberRisk Alliance, Bradley Barth develops content for online conferences, webcasts, podcasts video/multimedia projects — often serving as moderator or host. For nearly six years, he wrote and reported for SC Media as deputy editor and, before that, senior reporter. He was previously a program executive with the tech-focused PR firm Voxus. Past journalistic experience includes stints as business editor at Executive Technology, a staff writer at New York Sportscene and a freelance journalist covering travel and entertainment. In his spare time, Bradley also writes screenplays.

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