Zero Days Top Cybersecurity Agencies' Most-Exploited List

Cybersecurity Officials Urge to Prioritize Fixing These 15 Most-Exploited Flaws Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • November 22, 2024

Which vulnerabilities need fixing first to best block nation-state and other hacking attempts?

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One answer to that question arrives in the form of an annual list of the 15 vulnerabilities most routinely exploited by attackers, prepared by cybersecurity officials across the Five Eyes intelligence partnership countries, including the U.S. National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

In an accompanying security alert, the governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. urged organizations to prioritize remediating the vulnerabilities most routinely exploited in 2023 by attackers.

"All of these vulnerabilities are publicly known, but many are in the top 15 list for the first time," said Jeffrey Dickerson, cybersecurity technical director ...