Our findings in this year’s Skybox Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report, detailed below, make the urgency of the situation abundantly clear. Vulnerabilities have skyrocketed, eclipsing all previous records. Attacks are increasing in velocity and impact. Threat actors are targeting more sensitive assets and inflicting more damage. They are better organized—backed increasingly by large crime rings and nation-states—and are employing more sophisticated tools and tactics, such as a growing assortment of backdoor malware and advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks.

This report examines trends in vulnerabilities, exploits and threats in order to better align your security strategy with the current threat landscape. Incorporating such intelligence to vulnerability management programs begins to put vulnerabilities in risk–based context and helps to focus remediation on vulnerabilities most likely to be used in an attack. This is an update to a report published in January 2018 to reflect mid–year trends. All statistics for 2018 reflect data from the first half of the year — January 1, 2018 through June 30, 2018.

The 2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report examines new vulnerabilities published in 2018, newly developed exploits, new exploit–based malware and attacks, current threat tactics and more. Such analysis helps to provide much needed context to the more than 16,000 vulnerabilities published in the previous year. The insights and recommendations provided are there to help align security strategies to effectively counter the current threat landscape. Incorporating such intelligence in vulnerability management programs will help put vulnerabilities in a risk based context and focus remediation on the small subset of vulnerabilities most likely to be used in an attack.

This infographic provides brief insight into the corresponding 2019 Threat and Vulnerability Trends report.