Disclosures doubled
High- & critical-severity CVEs year-over-year - 8,539 vs 4,268 in Q2 2025
Holy grail flaws
Of exploited vulnerabilities required no auth and no user interaction (25 of 40)
U.S. victims
Ransomware leak-site listings in the U.S. - roughly 9× Germany, the next country
Underground listings
Exploit & access listings across 20 dark web sources, 23 CVEs actively traded
Disclosures doubled
High- & critical-severity CVEs year-over-year - 8,539 vs 4,268 in Q2 2025
Holy grail flaws
Of exploited vulnerabilities required no auth and no user interaction (25 of 40)
U.S. victims
Ransomware leak-site listings in the U.S. - roughly 9× Germany, the next country
Underground listings
Exploit & access listings across 20 dark web sources, 23 CVEs actively traded
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