OpenCMS Unauthenticated XXE Vulnerability (CVE-2023-42344)

OpenCms is a popular open-source Java framework developed by Alkacon Software. OpenCms provides a platform for users to design and develop web applications. The latest version of the framework is 16.0. About CVE-2023-42344 CVE-2023-42344 is a critical vulnerability where users can execute code...

Discover Gentoo Linux Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for Gentoo Linux, allowing security teams to identify Gentoo Linux hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. It is a fr...

Real-Time Alerting and Incident Management for Unauthorized Changes

The security landscape is constantly changing, and you need to adopt proactive measures to stay ahead of security breaches by being extremely vigilant about every little change in your environment. In our previous blog, we discussed how you can leverage the ready-to-use monitoring profiles in you...

Intuitive and Ready-to-Use Monitoring Profiles for Compliance Regulations

Detecting changes from a baseline established for files and file paths and receiving instant alerts about them is crucial to ensure security within a monitored environment. File tampering is an indicator of illicit activity, and authorized users must be alerted whenever changes in a critical file...

The New Year Calls for a Change in the OT Industry’s State of Security

In 2014, a Western European steel mill suffered serious damage from a phishing attack that penetrated its IT and Operational Technology OT networks the software and hardware dedicated to monitoring and controlling physical devices where attackers gained control of plant equipment. In 2018, 74% of...

Streamlining and Automating Compliance

There are seemingly countless regulatory and industry frameworks out there that organizations have to navigate and comply with. SOX Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, GDPR General Data Protection Regulation, HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...

Safeguarding Vulnerability Management Despite MITRE Funding Risks

Recently, there have been several developments from vulnerability databases that have led to some concerns around their continued effectiveness in categorizing and enriching the data about vulnerabilities. The MITRE CVE program has been an essential part of cybersecurity for over 25 years. It...

Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Extends FIM with Real-Time Monitoring of Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data and Configuration Change Detection on Network Devices

Introducing FIM 4.0 with File Access Monitoring FAM and Agentless FIM to ensure compliance with the new PCI 4.0 File Integrity Monitoring FIM solutions are essential for virtually any organization to help identify suspicious activities across critical system files and registries, diagnose changes...

How the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Supports CISA Vulnrichment

Introduction In todays interconnected digital landscape, cybersecurity threats pose significant risks to organizations across various sectors. Recognizing the need for a structured approach to identify, prioritize, and address vulnerabilities, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

De-risk the Software Supply Chain by Expanding Unparalleled Detection Coverage With Qualys VMDR and Software Composition Analysis

QIDs/CVEs When it comes to cybersecurity, speed is key in getting an edge over attackers. But when you consider that vulnerabilities weaponize 24 days faster than then they are remediated on average, cybersecurity stakeholders have a lot of catching up to do. While there are many ways defenders c...

How does Qualys TotalCloud prevent secret leaks for Containers?

This blog post introduces new product capabilities to help prevent container secret leaks. Discover how Qualys TotalCloud can provide a unified view of secrets-related risks. Why is Secret Detection Needed for Container Security? A recent study by researchers at the RWTH Aachen University in...

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...

Blind SQL Injection – Content-Based, Time-Based Approaches

Blind SQL Injection Overview Blind SQL InjectionBSQL is a type of SQL Injection SQLI vulnerability, where an attacker exploits the application to extract information from the database. An application vulnerable to SQLI displays application-specific information in the response when it is exploited...

Qualys Security Updates: Cloud Agent for Linux

The security and protection of our customers is of the utmost importance to Qualys, as is transparency whenever issues arise. A customer responsibly disclosed two scenarios related to the Qualys Cloud Agent: 1. For the first scenario, we added supplementary safeguards for signatures running on...

Qualys Multi-Vector EDR Excels in 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation

MITRE evaluated Qualys Multi-Vector EDR against competing alternatives, and the results are in. This blog reviews the basics of MITRE ATT&CK evaluation, how our EDR solution performed, and how to interpret the ratings. MITRE Engenuity has released the results of round 4 of its ATT&CK Evaluations...

Automating Agent-less Vulnerability Assessment for Intune Enrolled Mobile Devices

Most Mobile Device Management solutions lack critical functionality such as vulnerability assessment and patch management. Integration with a popular MDM like Microsoft Intune allows Qualys to provide automated onboarding and continuous scanning of your mobile devices, among other functions to...

Tenacity 2.0 – Emulating Threat groups

Introduction The previous article: Tenacity – An Adversary Emulation Tool for Persistence, walked us through the working of Tenacity, techniques it supports, and how it can help organizations and individuals to validate the risk posture. As with the second installment of the series, this post wil...

From Technical Features to Customer Security Metrics

Qualys solutions are packed with great functionality to deliver operational efficiency to all our customers, but the value does not end with bits and bytes. Qualys customers can count on Technical Account Managers to maximize the effectiveness of their subscription, and this post tells a story...

Support Live Chat

In more than 4 months since Qualys launched Support Live Chat on the Customer Support Portal, we’ve seen customers use it successfully to get answers to quick support questions. Based on its success, we are scaling internal processes to accommodate greater usage, and we encourage all customers to...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #4

With Black Hat USA 2019 fast approaching, we continue our blog series highlighting training sessions and research briefings that we think Qualys customers will find relevant and valuable. Our pick this week is the training session An Introduction To IoT Pentesting With Linux. The course offers “a...

Visualizing the Stack Clash Vulnerability with Dashboards

Security teams should apply vendor patches immediately to protect their Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris infrastructure from The Stack Clash vulnerability also see the security advisory. To help in that effort, this blog post describes a new built-in Qualys AssetView dashboard to...

Don’t Wait for a Patch. Mitigate RedSun Zero-Day Risk in Microsoft Defender Today

Key Takeaways RedSun is a critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Defender that allows low-privileged users to gain SYSTEM access No patch is currently available, leaving all Defender-enabled Windows systems potentially exposed Qualys VMDR detects affected assets instantly QID 92382 TruRisk...

Mutagen Astronomy: From Discovery to CISA Recognition—A Seven-Year Journey

Introduction On January 26, 2026,the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA added CVE-2018-14634 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog. The same vulnerability was discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU in September 2018. We nicknamed it "Mutagen Astronomy" a...

ShadyPanda: The Silent Browser Takeover Threat and How Qualys TruRisk Eliminate Helps You Stop It

Executive Summary ShadyPanda has exploited trusted browser extensions to compromise millions of users, illustrating how legitimate software can unexpectedly become harmful. Qualys TruRisk Eliminate empowers organizations to identify risky behaviors, prioritize real threats, and eliminate maliciou...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, June 2025 Security Update Review

Microsoft's June 2025 Patch Tuesday has landed, addressing a new batch of critical and important vulnerabilities across Windows and enterprise products. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2025 In this month's Patch Tuesday, June 2025 edition,...

Critical Apache Struts File Upload Vulnerability (CVE-2024-53677)—Risks, Implications, and Enterprise Countermeasures

Apache has announced a critical vulnerability affecting Apache Struts CVE-2024-53677, a widely used Java-based web application framework. Struts is integral to many enterprise environments due to its robust architecture, extensive data validation capabilities, and seamless integration with other...

Secure Your APIs and Reduce Your Attack Surface With Modern, AI-powered API Security in Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS)

The rise of APIs presents both opportunities and challenges in today’s hyperconnected digital world. APIs are integral to digital transformation initiatives across industries. The latest data indicates that over 83% of web traffic now comprises API traffic, highlighting their critical role in...

Real-time File Access Monitoring (FAM) with Qualys FIM

What is File Access Monitoring FAM? FAM is a security practice that involves tracking and logging access to sensitive files. FAM should be included with any File Integrity Monitoring FIM solution to trigger alerts when critical host files not intended for regular use are accessed. Importance of F...

Building an AppSec Program with Qualys WAS – Configuring a Web Application or API: Crawl Settings

Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS stands out as the industrys leading Dynamic Application Security Testing DAST solution. Delving deeper into these settings is crucial for effectively harnessing its potential to uncover vulnerabilities. Scan coverage is greatly influenced by the crawl settings,...

TotalCloud Empowered with CloudView Integration

Qualys, a leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, offers Qualys TotalCloud - a unified vulnerability, threat, and posture management solution. This solution simplifies cloud infrastructure security by combining essential components such as Cloud Workload Protection, Clo...

Announcing General Availability of Qualys TotalCloud

Qualys TotalCloud is a CNAPP solution based on Qualys Cloud Platform that provides multi-cloud vulnerability detection and misconfiguration response, and today we are pleased to announce that TotalCloud is now generally available. TotalCloud Home Page Unified View of Multi-Cloud Risk Posture...

Not Your Average FIM: Why Customers Choose Qualys FIM

Choosing the right FIM solution is a crucial step for an organization. One should not need professional services just to onboard or manage. Traditional FIM solutions with legacy architecture are either too noisy or too hard to use. The market demands an intelligent FIM solution that is easy to...

Optimizing a Web Application Security Scan for bWAPP

Today almost all organizations have an online presence, with more information accessible at the click of a mouse, making customer experiences much more frictionless. Yet the delivery of great experiences also opens the door to potential hackers intent on compromising the website and its APIs...

Aflac Reduces Critical Vulnerabilities by 55% with Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk

The following is a guest blog by Aflac, a Qualys VMDR customer, on their recent experience completing a Proof of Concept project for the newly release VMDR 2.0 with Qualys TruRisk. About Aflac Aflac Inc. NYSE: AFL is an insurance leader and the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the...

Continuous Security Hardening and Monitoring for IBM® z/OS® Mainframes and Databases Using Qualys Policy Compliance

Mainframes are a key infrastructure component for many enterprises worldwide. Arguably the most secure, reliable, and efficient computing platform, mainframes hold some 70% of the worlds business-critical data. Even though they are highly secure and resilient, it’s a common misconception that...

Qualys Training Update, April 2019

The Qualys Training team has expanded the AssetView & Threat Protection course, and added two new training series: CertView and Troubleshooting Scanner Appliance Error Codes. These new additions build on last month’s update, when we introduced the new Vulnerability Management learning path, which...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.31 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.31 includes updates and new features for AssetView, Cloud Agent, EC2 Connector, Web Application Scanning, Web Application Firewall, and Security Assessment Questionnaire, highlights as follows. AssetView Use custom severities in AV searches and...

Countdown to GDPR — Reduce your Risk

First discussed in the 1990s and turned into law last year, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR finally goes into effect in May 2018, imposing strict requirements on millions of businesses and subjecting violators to severe penalties. The complex regulation is of concern not just to...

Advancing Cybersecurity in the Age of Frontier AI: Qualys Steps into Project Glasswing

The cybersecurity industry has spent much of the last two years debating how attackers might use AI. That debate matters, but it misses a larger point: defenders now have an opportunity to change the economics of cyber risk. For me, the question is not whether AI will influence cybersecurity. It...

Inside the 2026 Verizon DBIR: What One Billion Records Revealed About Vulnerability Remediation

The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report has been published. Qualys is proud to have served as a research partner and contributor, contributing analysis of more than one billion anonymized vulnerability remediation records across four consecutive DBIR reporting cycles of CISA Known...

Steps to TruRisk™ – 2: Measuring the Likelihood of Vulnerability Exploitation

Cybersecurity programs rely on various methods to measure the risk associated with vulnerabilities for prioritization, such as CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, or even internally developed systems that combine multiple approaches. While these methods help assess whether a specific vulnerability exists on an...

Mass Campaign of Murdoc Botnet Mirai: A New Variant of Corona Mirai

The Qualys Threat Research Unit has uncovered a large-scale, ongoing operation within the Mirai campaign, dubbed Murdoc Botnet. This variant exploits vulnerabilities targeting AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG532 routers. It demonstrates enhanced capabilities, exploiting vulnerabilities to compromise...

Mitigating Risk with Custom First-Party Software and Application Components: A CISOs’ Guide

What is First-Party Software Anyway? First-party software, unlike off-the-shelf ‘Third-Party’ software, is custom open-source software OSS and applications created by organizations to stitch together existing software to meet custom business needs. Nearly every company today uses some form of...

Is your FIM Solution Cost and Time Efficient?

Virtually every security professional and corporate executive is painfully aware of recent escalations in cybersecurity threats. No one wants to be a headline or get hit with the typical $4.5 million price tag to remediate an incident IBM Study. Almost every security team will agree that file...

Introducing CyberSecurity Asset Management 2.0 with Natively Integrated External Attack Surface Management

Qualys is introducing Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management 2.0, which now delivers natively integrated External Attack Surface Management EASM to enable Cybersecurity teams to identify any and all assets visible on the internet, including previously unknown assets and any potential security...

Ukrainian Targets Hit by HermeticWiper, New Datawiper Malware

The Ukrainian Government has been targeted by HermeticWiper, a new ransomware-like data wiper. Its aim is not simply to encrypt the victim’s data, but rather to render a system essentially unusable. In this blog, our Research Team details our analysis of how this aggressive new malware works. The...

The Unbearable Lightness of Unaudited Supply Chains

An acute need expressed by a majority of CISOs at a roundtable in Italy sparks an idea to use one of our lesser-known compliance apps to manage supply chain security assurance efforts. In the 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, author Milan Kundera ponders the fleeting nature of man’s...

Vulnerability Remediation: It’s Not Just Patching

Vulnerability does not equal a patch, as such remediating a detected vulnerability requires deploying the right patches and, in some cases, making the right configuration changes. Using multiple tools to detect, map and deploy the right remediation actions is time consuming and will result in les...

The Chaos Ransomware Can Be Ravaging

The Qualys Research Team has observed a new version of Chaos ransomware in development. This blog reviews the malware’s updated functionality as well as its ongoing evolution. A ransomware builder called Chaos is still actively under development. The fourth version has recently been observed bein...

Add Ergonomic Security to Your CI/CD Pipeline

Wikipedia defines ergonomics as “the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. The goal … is to reduce human error, increase productivity, and enhance safety and comfort with a specific focus on the interaction...