Microsoft Exchange bugs top list of exploited vulnerabilities affecting financial sector

Two bugs affecting Microsoft products topped a survey of exploited vulnerabilities being used to target the U.S. financial services sector, according to new research.

Researchers at the cybersecurity company LookingGlass examined public internet-facing assets from over 7 million IP addresses belonging to the sector in November 2022 – finding that a seven-year-old Remote Code Execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows topped the list. 

“It was interesting to see that our research detected CVE-2015-1635, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows, …

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