Subdomain takeover attacks on the rise and harder to monitor

From helpnetsecurity.com

A research from Detectify found that subdomain takeovers are on the rise but are also getting harder to monitor as domains now seem to have more vulnerabilities in them.

In 2021, Detectify detected 25% more vulnerabilities in its customers’ web assets compared to 2020 with twice the median number of vulnerabilities per domain, demonstrating the outsized impact an external attack surface monitoring (EASM) tool can have on an organization’s cybersecurity programme.

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