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Stating the Obvious: Vulns On the Rise in 2025

Happy New Year! As we usher in a year with some pleasant mathematical properties, I wanted to take a brief look back at one of the stories that was most interesting to me as a security data nerd from last year: our dependency on the National Institute of Standards and Technologies’s (NIST) National Vulnerability Database(NVD), and what the degradation in service has meant to the flow of information about new CVEs. TL:DR.

AI-Powered Attacks Surge: 1,025% Jump in Vulnerabilities, 99% are API related

Wallarm's 2025 API ThreatStats Report offers a sweeping look at how AI deployments drive a surge in security risks. In 2024, Wallarm researchers discovered 439 AI-related CVEs-up an astonishing 1,025% from the prior year. Nearly all these flaws, 99%, point back to insecure or mismanaged APIs.

Arctic Wolf Observes Campaign Exploiting SimpleHelp RMM Software for Initial Access

On January 22, 2025, Arctic Wolf began observing a campaign involving unauthorized access to devices running SimpleHelp RMM software as an initial access vector. Roughly a week prior to the emergence of this campaign, several vulnerabilities had been publicly disclosed in SimpleHelp by Horizon3 (CVE-2024-57726, CVE-2024-57727, and CVE-2024-57728).

CVE-2025-23006: Actively Exploited Vulnerability in SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances

On January 22, 2025, SonicWall published a security advisory detailing an actively exploited remote command execution vulnerability in SMA1000 appliances. The critical-severity vulnerability, CVE-2025-23006, is a pre-authentication deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that has been identified in the SMA1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC) and Central Management Console (CMC). If exploited, it could allow unauthenticated remote threat actors to execute arbitrary OS commands.

Reviving DevSecOps: How Snyk's new framework builds trust and collaboration

It’s been over a decade since DevSecOps was introduced as a transformative approach to software development, but adoption remains uneven. Despite its promise of seamless integration between development, security, and operations, only 38% of organizations report fully automating the addition of new projects, branches, or repositories into their security testing queues.
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Taking a Threat Adapted Approach to Vulnerability Management

As cyber threats continue to grow in complexity and frequency, vulnerability management requires more than just patching systems; it demands a dynamic, threat-adapted approach. As part of Cyber Rhino Threat Week (9-13th of December 2024) which aimed to inform, sharing threat intelligence insights and best practices with our customers, partners and industry ecosystem, we held a session that explored how integrating Threat Intelligence into Vulnerability Management can transform the way organisations prioritise and respond to risks.