Software flaw that allowed Stuxnet virus to spread was the most exploited in 2016
Software updates might strengthen cybersecurity, but they’re hardly the full picture when it comes to digital hygiene. One of the most famous Windows vulnerabilities in history — a coding flaw that was originally discovered in 2010 and had a role in the elaborate Pentagon mission to handicap Iran’s nuclear enrichment program — was the most widely exploited software bug in both 2015 and 2016, according to new research by antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab, even though Microsoft rolled out a patch in August 2010. “The life of an exploit doesn’t end with the release of a security patch designed to fix the vulnerability being exploited,” Kaspersky Lab researchers wrote in a blog post Thursday sourcing proprietary and open-source intelligence reports. “Once made public, a vulnerability can become even more dangerous: grabbed and repurposed by big threat actors within hours.” Kaspersky Lab found that 27 percent of its user base had at one point encountered the “CVE-2010-2568” Microsoft exploit between […]
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