Augment Security Asset Tagging with Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR)

Security asset tagging provides a flexible and scalable way to organize the assets in your environment based on specific requirements. It enables you to create tags and assign them to your assets, which can improve your cybersecurity maturity and reduce risks for breaches and audit failures. Qual...

Risk-based Vulnerability Management Combined With A Cyber Risk Management Platform

Recent insights from IDCs recent report, Worldwide Device Vulnerability Management Forecast, 2023–2027: Evolving Beyond Scanning Feb. 2023, provide a sobering look at the future of what cybersecurity stacks may look like in a few years. As the name suggests, this report took a deep dive into the...

Active TLS1.1 and Weak Ciphers Causing environment Vulnerabilities

This Tech Paper aims to convey what someone skilled in ADC would configure as a generic implementation to receive an A+ grade atQualys SSL Labs...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-139-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Qualys VMDR & Jira Integration Now Available

The increasing number of vulnerabilities poses a significant challenge for most organizations trying to effectively manage and mitigate Cyber risks. According to NVD, the number of vulnerabilities in 2022 increased by approximately 25% as compared to 2021. As we are in start of March the...

What’s Next After Log4Shell?

How To Deal With the Next Open-Source Vulnerability Using Custom Scripts A critical vulnerability in Apache’s Log4j Java-based logging utility CVE-2021-44228 was previously referred to as the “most critical vulnerability of the last decade.” In the wake of Log4Shell exploits, many security...

Automating Vulnerability Management with Qualys VMDR & ServiceNow

With a growing number of cyber-attacks and the push to stay ahead of adversaries, the Vulnerability Management lifecycle has become necessary for ensuring enterprise-grade cyber resiliency. For many organizations, there is a persistent challenge in supporting vulnerability assessment and...

Forta GoAnywhere Zero-Day Exploited By Threat Actors

On February 1st, 2023, Forta released an advisory behind an auth wall notifying their customers of a remote code execution zero-day exploit affecting their GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer MFT application. This was picked up by Brian Krebs, an investigative journalist who published this on his...

Don’t forget about risk remediation of your macOS assets

Employees love for Macs has propelled tremendous growth for Apple. According to a recent study by Parallels, 55% of businesses use Mac devices themselves or explicitly approve of their use within the company. It is hard to believe Macs have been around for almost 4 decades. Largely introduced to...

Real-Time Defense of Multi-Cloud Environments From Malicious Attacks and Threats

Organizations today cannot detect real-time threats at runtime due to the multi-cloud infrastructure, resulting in the possibility of malicious actors exploiting the environment. It is imperative for the modern organization to have a solution to detect advanced run-time threats in real-time to...

Introducing Enterprise TruRisk Management from Qualys

Since the release of Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk last year, our customers have quickly adopted it to perform cyber risk assessments across the entire enterprise. With detail-rich cyber risk visualization, customers can now pinpoint the areas of their business exposed to elevated levels of cyber...

Launching Qualys Cloud Threat Database

We are proud to announce the release of the Qualys Cloud Threat Database which correlates more than 25 different threat intelligence feeds into a single source for all Qualys products to leverage. This comprehensive vulnerability and threat intelligence database pulls from trusted sources such as...

Ransomware Targets Outdated VMware ESXi Hypervisors: Protect Your Systems Now!

Updated on February 8, 2023 at 2:40 PM Pacific Standard Time: This article has been updated with EVALUATE Vendor-Suggested Mitigation with Policy Compliance PC Updated on February 7, 2023 at 9:05 PM Pacific Standard Time: This article has been updated with the latest information on the...

macOS Patching Is Here!

In the past few years, many of our customers have seen a sharp increase in the number of Mac devices introduced to their environment. All those new Mac devices introduce new vulnerabilities that must be remediated. To keep up with the new volume of vulnerabilities, organizations had to opt-in, bu...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-4034 This is a PoC for PwnKit Local Privilege Esc...

Detection of Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript is a popular programming language which is an integral component while developing interactive and dynamic web applications. It allows developers to create engaging and responsive user interfaces, handling complex web page elements, enhancing the overall functionality of the application...

Microsoft Issues January 2023 Patch Tuesday Updates, Warns of Zero-Day Exploit

The first Patch Tuesday fixes shipped by Microsoft for 2023 have addressed a total of 98 security flaws, including one bug that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. 11 of the 98 issues are rated Critical and 87 are rated Important in severity, with one of the vulnerabilities...

Blind Eagle Hackers Return with Refined Tools and Sophisticated Infection Chain

A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Blind Eagle has resurfaced with a refined toolset and an elaborate infection chain as part of its attacks targeting organizations in Colombia and Ecuador. Check Point's latest research offers new insights into the Spanish-speaking group's tactics an...

Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Qualys TruRisk™: Part 3

In this final blog of the series, we will discuss the importance of implementing effective risk-based remediation strategies to reduce the risk of vulnerabilities being exploited in your environment. In the earlier blogs, we covered how to operationalize Qualys TruRisk and to effectively visualiz...

BitRAT Now Sharing Sensitive Bank Data as a Lure

Introduction In June of 2022 Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU wrote an in-depth report on Redline, a commercial off the shelf infostealer that spreads via fake cracked software hosted on Discord’s content delivery network. Since then, we have continued to track similar threats to identify their...