LATEST INTELLIGENCE
2019 VULNERABILITY
AND THREAT TRENDS
RESEARCH REPORT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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ulnerabilities don’t exist in a vacuum. The
risk they pose to your organization depends
on a variety of factors both internal and
external that are in a near-constant state of change.
Keeping up with that change is vital to limiting your
organization’s risk of attack.
That’s why we publish this report – to give CISOs and
security leaders the perspective they need to see the
trends shaping the threat landscape and, in turn, their
defense strategy. The 2019 Vulnerability and Threat
Trends Report examines new vulnerabilities published
in 2018, newly developed exploits, new exploit-based
malware and attacks, current threat tactics and more.
Such analysis helps to provide much needed context
to the more than 16,000 vulnerabilities published in
the previous year. The insights and recommendations
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provided are there to help align security strategies
to effectively counter the current threat landscape.
Incorporating such intelligence in vulnerability
management programs will help put vulnerabilities
in a risk-based context and focus remediation on the
small subset of vulnerabilities most likely to be used
in an attack.
Key findings
2018 will be remembered as the year when
cryptomining rose in prominence, overtaking
Ransomware as the cybercriminal’s tool of choice.
Cryptomining attacks represented 27 percent of all
incidents last year, rising from 9 percent in 2017
and far surpassing ransomware’s 13 percent share
in 2018. Its rise in popularity could be owed to the
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