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,...

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...

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...

Qualys WAS Unveils New Features in an Upgraded User Interface

Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS has been at the forefront of web application and API security innovation, and today, were excited to announce a significant leap - the launch of our New User Interface UI. From improved performance and reliability to cutting-edge technology adoption and enhance...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Detecting HTTP Request Smuggling with Qualys WAS

HTTP Request Smuggling HRS is a web application vulnerability that enables an attacker to craft a single request that hides a second request within the body of the first request. HRS enables the following types of attack: Web cache poisoning Web cache deception Session hijacking Cross-site...

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...

5 Reasons to Attend Qualys Security Conference 2019

Qualys is a leader in cybersecurity and one of the more recognizable and respected names in the industry. It should be. The company has been around for 20 years, and it continues to innovate and push the envelope. Later this month, Qualys will take over Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas for the Qualys...

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...

Qualys Support for Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Cyber Security Guidelines

Reserve Bank of India RBI, India's central banking and monetary authority, points out that the number, frequency, and impact of cyber incidents on Indian banks has increased substantially. Like their peers globally, Indian banks are committed to maintaining customer trust, protecting financial...

Oracle Critical Patch Update, April 2025 Security Update Review

Oracle released its first quarterly edition of this year’s Critical Patch Update. The update received patches for 378 s ecurity vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this update impact more than one product. These patches address vulnerabilities in various product families,...

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...

Qualys TRU Discovers Two Vulnerabilities in OpenSSH: CVE-2025-26465 & CVE-2025-26466

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has identified two vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. The first, tracked as CVE-2025-26465, allows an active machine-in-the-middle attack on the OpenSSH client when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. The second, CVE-2025-26466, affects both the OpenSSH client and...

Announcing TotalCloud Attack Path, Cloud Workflow Automation, and 3-Step Simplified User Onboarding for Qualys TotalCloud CNAPP

The shift of business applications and infrastructure to the cloud has heightened the need for security teams to manage cyber risks comprehensively, ensuring visibility and control across diverse cloud environments. As organizations increasingly adopt multi-cloud environments, they often find...

Qualys Ranked as a “Strong Performer” Among Top Vendors in Forrester Wave™ for Attack Surface Management

As the threat landscape evolves and presents new risks to security teams, the bar for attack surface management solutions is higher than ever. When Qualys introduced CyberSecurity Asset Management in 2021, the goal was to provide a unified view of the entire attack surface with visibility into...

Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaws in CUPS Printing Systems

A criticalset of unauthenticated Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerabilities in CUPS, affecting all GNU/Linux systems and potentially others, was disclosed today. These vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a target system without valid credentials or prior access...

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...

Assess, Remediate, and Prevent the Top 10 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques for Ransomware, Mapped to Misconfigurations

In cybersecurity, the battle against ransomware is a pivotal challenge for organizations worldwide. Attackers are consistently refining their methods, highlighting the critical need for businesses to remain proactive in their defense strategies. To effectively address this threat, it is essential...

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...

EDR Solutions Require Comprehensive Telemetry to Fend Off Multi-Vector Attacks

Endpoint devices are under increasingly aggressive and sophisticated attacks, so protecting them effectively from cyber criminals has become a thorny and vexing challenge as the threat landscape expands. It doesn’t help that endpoint protection today fluctuates between two strategies that are...

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...

FedRAMP ConMon – Efficiently & Effectively Managing SLAs for RA-5d Requirement

Are you a FedRamp-certified organization looking to more effectively maintain your FedRAMP status? There are tools available to help simplify the process and while the process involves some terminology, it is easily understood as outlined below. Additionally, it is supported by pre-built dashboar...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from vendo...

Countdown to GDPR: Get 20/20 Visibility Into Your IT Assets

Anyone questioning the importance of IT asset visibility in an organization’s security and compliance postures ought to review the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, which goes into effect next year. With the severe requirements the GDPR places on how a business handles the personal da...

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...

Ensuring Safe and Reliable Updates with Qualys TruRisk™ Manifest Version Control

The Fragility of “One Bad Update” In cybersecurity, speed is non-negotiable. New vulnerabilities surface daily, and enterprises expect coverage the moment exploits are in the wild. For years, the mantra was simple: push signatures fast, and you reduce risk. Faster updates meant faster protection...

Measuring, Communicating, and Eliminating Risk With TruRisk™ in Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS)

In an era where cyber threats loom larger and more complex than ever, organizations demand not just defense but intelligent, cohesive strategies for managing cyber risks. With the Enterprise TruRisk Platform, Qualys reaffirmed its commitment to these needs by focusing its cybersecurity solutions ...

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,...

Qualys Security Solutions Now Support Alibaba Cloud

Enterprise IT environments are getting exponentially more complex with the booming adoption of cloud computing, upping the ante for InfoSec teams, which must protect these new environments. As the foundation for modern IT innovations that propel digital transformation, public cloud platforms are...

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...

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...

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...

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...

GDPR Is Here: Achieve Superior Data Breach Prevention and Detection with Qualys

Turned into law in 2016, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR finally goes into effect this week, slapping strict requirements on millions of businesses and subjecting violators to severe penalties. The complex regulation applies to any organization worldwide -- not just in Europe --...

Adobe Fixes Half a Dozen Flash Vulnerabilities and More

Flash has been the top target for exploit kits and we have observed that defender behavior, i.e. how fast patches are applied along with other factors in the threat landscape could have led to a decline in the number of Flash vulnerabilities being weaponized in exploit kits. In 2016, the time to...

Enterprise Remediation Benchmark: How Does Your Organization Compare?

Executive Summary In the last 12 months, enterprises deployed millions of patches, yet many organizations remain exposed due to delayed remediation and unpatched third-party software. Key benchmarks from global enterprise environments: Over 8 million Google Chrome patches were deployed. Visual C+...

Qualys Achieves 100% Major Step Detection in the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations, Enterprise

How Qualys Transformed from Risk Leader to EDR Powerhouse In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, ransomware continues to dominate as one of the most significant cybersecurity challenges. To help organizations evaluate their defenses against these sophisticated threats, the MITRE ATT&CK...

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...

Verizon’s 2024 DBIR Unpacked: From Ransomware Evolution to Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

As we delve into cybersecuritys complex and evolving landscape, the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR offers crucial insights into the mechanisms and motives behind the latest wave of cyberattacks. Qualys is once again proud to contribute to the report, helping to dissect these...

WordPress LayerSlider Plugin: SQL Injection Vulnerability

On March 25th, 2024, a critical security vulnerability was discovered in the LayerSlider plugin for WordPress, marked as CVE-2024-2879. The plugins have more than 10 lakh active installations. This flaw, rated with a CVSS score of 7.5 out of 10.0, is identified as an SQL injection vulnerability...

Leveraging AI-informed Cybersecurity to Measure, Communicate, and Eliminate Cyber Risk

Dilip Bachwani, Qualys CTO, shares the Qualys AI strategy with TruRisk AI at QSC 2023. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and so are the implications of cyber risk across any organization. As attacker tactics become more sophisticated and persistent, cybersecurity strategies must grow...

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...

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...

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...

Securing Cloud and Container Workloads: A View From the Trenches

Almost 15 years after Amazon launched AWS, public cloud platforms have become extraordinarily sophisticated and feature-rich, as well as wildly popular, creating a world of security and compliance challenges that gets more complex by the day, said Badri Raghunathan​, Qualys product management...

Automated Discovery and Assessment of PaaS Databases with Lambda Service for Qualys Policy Compliance

In the last several years, Platform as a Service PaaS solutions have evolved and matured. As organizations have focused on digital transformation, there has been a major shift towards adopting PaaS solutions driven by benefits including scalability, agility, faster deployment, and cost-effective...