Stay informed on the latest exploit trends and vulnerabilities. Get expert insights and updates on information security exploits with our dedicated tag.
Search across headline titles and summaries.
Background for this topic.
An exploit is code, data, or a sequence of actions that uses a software, hardware, or configuration vulnerability to produce unintended behavior. Depending on the flaw and the attacker’s access, it may enable unauthorized code execution, privilege escalation, information disclosure, or denial of service. Exploitation can occur remotely through exposed services, web applications, or client software, or locally after an attacker gains limited access.
Exploitation matters because a vulnerability becomes an active attack path when the required conditions are reachable and exploitable. Defenders should inventory affected assets, prioritize remediation when exploitation is known or credible, apply patches or vendor mitigations, and reduce exposure through access controls, segmentation, and secure configuration. Monitoring for exploit-specific indicators—such as abnormal requests, unexpected processes, or privilege changes—supports detection; systems suspected of successful exploitation require containment and investigation for follow-on access.
Over 19,000 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet are exposed to attacks targeting a remote command execution exploit chain. [...]
Two vulnerabilities in the Galaxy App Store, Samsung's official repository for its devices, could enable attackers to install any app in the Galaxy Store without the user's knowledge or to direct victims to a malicious web location. [...]
Proof-of-concept exploit code is now available for a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in multiple Zoho ManageEngine products. [...]
Horizon3.ai researcher James Horseman said the team has successfully reproduced the exploit
Two of the vulnerabilities — in Azure Functions and Azure Digital Twins — required no account authentication for an attacker to exploit them.
Users of Zoho ManageEngine are being urged to patch their instances against a critical security vulnerability ahead of the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code
Proof-of-concept exploit code will be released later this week for a critical vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) without authentication in several Zoho ManageEngine products. [...]
Proof-of-concept exploit code will be released later this week for a critical vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) without authentication in several VMware products. [...]
More than 1,600 instances of the Cacti device monitoring tool reachable over the internet are vulnerable to a critical security issue that hackers have already started to exploit. [...]