{"id":220027,"date":"2026-05-26T03:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/attackers-hit-vulnerabilities-hard-last-year-making-exploits-the-top-entry-point-for-breaches\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:20:10","slug":"attackers-hit-vulnerabilities-hard-last-year-making-exploits-the-top-entry-point-for-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/attackers-hit-vulnerabilities-hard-last-year-making-exploits-the-top-entry-point-for-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers hit vulnerabilities hard last year, making exploits the top entry point for breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/verizon-data-breach-investigations-report-2026\/\">Attackers hit vulnerabilities hard last year, making exploits the top entry point for breaches<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/verizon-data-breach-investigations-report-2026\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/verizon-data-breach-investigations-report-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 17:19:24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verizon&#8217;s latest Data Breach Investigations Report highlights that exploited vulnerabilities topped the list as the primary initial access vector, responsible for 31% of all breaches examined over a year ending in October 2025, up from 20% the previous year. This surge reflects organizations&#8217; difficulty in managing an overwhelming number of vulnerabilities, leading to slower remediation rates. Only 26% of critical vulnerabilities in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency\u2019s catalog were fully remediated by organizations, down from 38% the year before. Ransomware remains prevalent, accounting for 48% of all breaches despite ransom payments declining as fewer victims pay the ransom. Researchers note a concerning trend of unverified ransomware reporting due to cybercriminals&#8217; practices of reusing or faking incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<br \/>\n&#8211; Exploited vulnerabilities accounted for 31% of initial access vectors in breaches.<br \/>\n&#8211; The decline in remediation rates signals inadequate vulnerability management.<br \/>\n&#8211; Ransom payment declines, but ransomware remains prevalent and is often difficult to track.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency&#8217;s catalog has seen a median elapsed time of 43 days for patching.<br \/>\n&#8211; Financially-motivated cybercriminals led breaches, with no major shift in attacker motivations.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers hit vulnerabilities hard last year, making exploits the top entry point for breaches https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/verizon-data-breach-investigations-report-2026\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2219083738.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,27],"class_list":["post-220027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220031,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220027\/revisions\/220031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}