Very little in life grabs our attention like a shiny new object. The gleam can be irresistible, the glitter mesmerizing. That’s how it is in cybersecurity, where the landscape is almost always dotted with alluringly novel hazards. Brand new threats, fresh twists on old threats — the shiny malicious objects just keep on coming, year in and year out. 2017 brought us threats such as the EternalBlue exploit, WannaCry and NotPetya, all with very high impact and warranting immediate remediation.
Behind the attention grabbers, however, lurked a less newsworthy but much more widespread and persistent threat, ranking, once again, as the top mechanism of attack targeting many organizations in every sector: injection attacks.
