African exploit detections cause for concern, says kaspersky ~
The number of exploits detected in Q2 2022 in Africa decreased compared to Q1, according to Kaspersky Security Network data, with the company’s security solutions detecting 149 211 cases in April-June 2022.
Exploits are programs or pieces of code written by cybercriminals that are designed to take advantage of a bug or vulnerability in an application or operating system running on a local or remote system . Using an exploit, attackers gain unauthorised access to the applications or operating systems on these systems.
In 2021, Kaspersky found four zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft products that cybercriminals could exploit – CVE-2021-28310, CVE-2021-31955, CVE-2021-31956, and CVE-2021-40449. They were discovered with Kaspersky’s Exploit prevention technology, which detects not only known exploits, but suspicious anomalies in programs’ behaviour as well – and therefore helps cybersecurity practitioners reveal new vulnerabilities.
South Africa saw the largest decrease in exploit detections in Q2 among the African countries – by 43% to 31 846 cases. It was followed by Nigeria – exploit detection saw a decrease of 30% to 10 758 cases. In Kenya the number of detections remained almost unchanged in Q2 at 106 607 .
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