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361
CVEs used by ransomware · 21% of the KEV catalog
3
added in the last 90 days
173
critical
121
victims posted (30 days)
408
groups tracked

Vendors most exploited by ransomware

Most common weaknesses (CWE)

By year added to KEV

Most active groups (30 days)

Victims posted on leak sites, according to ransomware.live. Victim names are not displayed.

GroupVictimsLast activity
N0n 41 13h
Wallstreet 13 1d
qilin 9 1d
interlock 6 3d
play 5 2d
akira 3 1d
AuditTeam 3 2d
Dark Project 3 3d
lockbit5 3 1d
Emperador 3 8h
everest 3 2d
iah6477 3 6h
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Most affected countries (30 days)

  • United States25
  • Sweden10
  • Brazil8
  • South Korea8
  • United Kingdom5
  • Singapore4
  • India4
  • Spain3
  • Germany3
  • Japan3

Most affected sectors (30 days)

  • Transportation28
  • Professional Services19
  • Healthcare13
  • Manufacturing11
  • Other10
  • Retail & E-Commerce8
  • Technology7
  • Financial Services3
  • Energy & Utilities3
  • Hospitality2

Groups and the CVEs they exploit

clop 5akira 3alphv 3conti 3hive 3play 3medusa 2vicesociety 2atomsilo 1blackbyte 1blackshadow 1BrainCipher 1esxiargs 1frag 1handala 1icefire 1incransom 1karma 1lockbit 1maze 1nightsky 1nightspire 1nokoyawa 1revil 1reynolds 1underground 1

CVEs used in ransomware campaigns

Severity
Clear

12 result(s)

CVE-2026-0257 Critical · 9.1 KEV Urgent · 80 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-565 May 13, 2026
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the GlobalProtect portal and gateway of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allows the attacker to bypass security restrictions and establish an unauthorized VPN connection. Panorama and Cloud NGFW are not impacted by these issues.
CVE-2021-45046 Critical · 9.0 KEV Urgent · 90 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-917 Dec 14, 2021
Apache Log4j2 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. This could allows attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data when the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with either a Context Lookup (for example, $${ctx:loginId}) or a Thread Context Map pattern (%X, %mdc, or %MDC) to craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern resulting in an information leak and remote code execution in some environments and local code execution in all environments. Log4j 2.16.0 (Java 8) and 2.12.2 (Java 7) fix this issue by removing support for message lookup patterns and disabling JNDI functionality by default.
CVE-2021-4034 High · 7.8 KEV Urgent · 86 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-125 Jan 28, 2022
Red Hat Polkit Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights on the target machine.
CVE-2017-0147 High · 7.5 KEV Urgent · 89 Public exploit Ransomware Mar 16, 2017
Microsoft Windows SMBv1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability
The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted packets, aka "Windows SMB Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
CVE-2017-0148 High · 8.1 KEV Urgent · 86 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-20 Mar 16, 2017
Microsoft SMBv1 Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka "Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This vulnerability is different from those described in CVE-2017-0143, CVE-2017-0144, CVE-2017-0145, and CVE-2017-0146.
CVE-2017-0146 High · 8.8 KEV Urgent · 86 Public exploit Ransomware Mar 16, 2017
Microsoft Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka "Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This vulnerability is different from those described in CVE-2017-0143, CVE-2017-0144, CVE-2017-0145, and CVE-2017-0148.
CVE-2017-0144 High · 8.8 KEV Urgent · 86 Public exploit Ransomware Mar 16, 2017
Microsoft SMBv1 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka "Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This vulnerability is different from those described in CVE-2017-0143, CVE-2017-0145, CVE-2017-0146, and CVE-2017-0148.
CVE-2017-0145 High · 8.8 KEV Urgent · 86 Public exploit Ransomware Mar 16, 2017
Microsoft SMBv1 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka "Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This vulnerability is different from those described in CVE-2017-0143, CVE-2017-0144, CVE-2017-0146, and CVE-2017-0148.
CVE-2021-44228 Critical · 10.0 KEV Urgent · 100 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-20 Dec 10, 2021
Apache Log4j2 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.15.0 (excluding security releases 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1) JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers when message lookup substitution is enabled. From log4j 2.15.0, this behavior has been disabled by default. From version 2.16.0 (along with 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1), this functionality has been completely removed. Note that this vulnerability is specific to log4j-core and does not affect log4net, log4cxx, or other Apache Logging Services projects.
CVE-2021-40438 Critical · 9.0 KEV Urgent · 83 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-918 Sep 16, 2021
Apache HTTP Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
A crafted request uri-path can cause mod_proxy to forward the request to an origin server choosen by the remote user. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.48 and earlier.
CVE-2019-0708 Critical · 9.8 KEV Urgent · 93 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-416 May 16, 2019
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services formerly known as Terminal Services when an unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests, aka 'Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
CVE-2017-0143 High · 8.8 KEV Urgent · 86 Public exploit Ransomware Mar 16, 2017
Microsoft Windows Server Message Block (SMBv1) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka "Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This vulnerability is different from those described in CVE-2017-0144, CVE-2017-0145, CVE-2017-0146, and CVE-2017-0148.

Sources: CISA KEV (knownRansomwareCampaignUse field) and ransomware.live (groups, TTPs and victim counts). The absence of a KEV flag does not mean a flaw is not used by ransomware.