Monetarily motivated attacks are by far the most prevalent cyberthreats to organizations worldwide, yet vulnerability management techniques have largely failed to adapt to a threat landscape dominated by distributed crimeware. By understanding the commercialization of attack tools and services – particularly the vulnerabilities they use, re-use and share – vulnerability management can focus on the small subset of vulnerabilities that are exploited in the wild and packaged in distributed crimeware.

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