A recent study shined a light on an attack vector that is often overlooked: the insecurity of web applications.
According to the report, issued by Positive Technologies, 44 percent of web applications are vulnerable to data leakage and security problems. In other words, threat actors have easy access to the personal customer data those applications handle across a variety of verticals such as banking, e-commerce and communications.
In addition, 48 percent of the applications were found to be vulnerable to unauthorized access, with 17 percent having exploits that could result in a full takeover by a threat actor. But perhaps the most eye-opening finding is that 100 percent of the web applications tested had some sort of vulnerability in general.
