Learning From Recent Zero-Day Attacks
A vulnerable network is always at the risk of being attacked. Even big organizations could turn their prey. Recent zero-day attacks prove Microsoft to be a favorite target for hackers as it has faced zero-day attacks many times. In the years 2017 and 2018, Microsoft detected vulnerability in the EternalBlue system, following which they released emergency security patches to block the flaw. In 2016, Acrobat reader was also under attack. They detected the fault, which was undiscovered until then. When it comes to an extreme zero-day worm, Stuxnet has been the severest. It targeted the supervisory control and acquisition system through the Windows operating system.
The most recently identified, highly targeted attacks were in Eastern Europe. One of the recent zero-day attacks – 2019 took place in June when vulnerability affected some older versions of Windows.
