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Censys

Censys is an internet scanning and attack surface management company that maps internet-connected devices and services to help identify exposed systems.

Known aliases

  • Censys ARC
  • Censys Attack Research Center
  • CensysInspect
  • Censys Internet Map

Current stories

securityOne report1 publisher

Censys sees exposed Danfoss StoreView panels in France drop 71% in three days after the supermarket attack

Censys counted 71% fewer internet-exposed Danfoss StoreView panels in France three days after the October 11 attack on hundreds of supermarkets. It found no rise in patched firmware, so the older versions are still running.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption26
Hype gap+12
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

ANSSI extends French supermarket refrigeration alert to Copeland and Dixell XWEB controllers

France's cyber agency ANSSI says the attack that hit about 700 supermarkets also reached Copeland and Dixell XWEB refrigeration controllers. Danfoss says most of its affected units are end-of-life and unpatched.

Publishers:securityweek.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−10
Incentives45
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

iVerify discloses P7 DarkSword, a reworked variant of a leaked iOS exploit kit focused on stability, stealth and stolen data quality

iVerify disclosed P7 DarkSword, a reworked variant of a leaked iOS exploit kit for iPhones on iOS 18.4 to 18.7 that steals keychain and crypto-wallet data. The commercial chain leaked onto a second-hand market, where financially motivated operators have been buying it since late 2025.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+5
Incentives30
Confidence50
securityOne report1 publisher

Public exploit for CVE-2026-88771 turns a quiet NetScaler zero-day into internet-wide attacks

A public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-88771 pushed a stealthy NetScaler zero-day into mass exploitation, with fewer than 10% of exposed hosts patched. Citrix admits its detection script may miss intrusions, so exposed appliances should be treated as breached.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption70
Hype gap+8
Incentives35
Confidence62
securityConfirmed10 publishers

Fortinet tells FortiMail admins to disable IBE while an exploited CVSS 9.8 flaw awaits fixes

Fortinet says attackers are exploiting a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated file-write flaw in FortiMail, and no fixed release has shipped yet. Until builds arrive, its two workarounds are the only protection, including for 7.2 users told to move to a 7.4 branch that is still unpatched.

Publishers:bleepingcomputer.com censys.com cisa.gov helpnetsecurity.com labs.beazley.security scworld.com securityaffairs.com securityweek.com thehackernews.com truesec.com

Perspective Coverage

10 publishers
Builder
Builder 10%
Operator
Operator 82%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption30
Hype gap+8
Incentives40
Confidence76
buildOne report1 publisher

Scan logs from a $6 Frankfurt honeypot name a different top port under each count

One $6 Frankfurt server received its first unsolicited packet 3.77 seconds after its listener opened, according to a write-up on dev.to. Ranked by events, addresses or networks, the same log puts a different port at the top each time.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Plex tells NAS owners to hand-install a security release it will not describe

Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Desktop 1.115.0 fix flaws that still carry no CVE IDs and no description, which leaves anyone running the server on a NAS waiting on a package manager while the patched builds are already public.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 67%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Check Point patches unauthenticated root code execution in Security Management and Log Server

CVE-2026-91843 lets an attacker with no credentials run code as root through the login process, and Check Point has published indicators of compromise while saying it has seen no exploitation in the wild.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 16%
Operator
Operator 75%
Investor
Investor 9%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence78
buildOne report1 publisher

One unauthenticated request to LiteLLM's admin endpoint dumps every provider key the proxy routes

CISA's exploited-vulnerability catalog now holds entries for LiteLLM, Kestra and Starlette, according to a dev.to writeup, and the quickstart docs for those tools still keep provider API keys in the process environment an attacker reads first.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+42
Incentives32
Confidence34
securityOne report1 publisher

6,935 exposed Ollama servers answered an internet scan without asking for credentials

Mysterium VPN counted 36,769 self-hosted AI endpoints reachable from the public internet. Ollama is the only population where the scan can prove that nothing on the host asked for credentials.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption70
Hype gap+12
Incentives70
Confidence58
securityOne report1 publisher

Exposed AI tooling now outnumbers exposed ICS hosts by more than two to one

Censys counts more than 294,000 public IPs running one of 43 AI or LLM tools, up from roughly 183,000 in October 2025. The two platforms it names for growth, Langflow and LiteLLM, both carry KEV-listed flaws.

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption63
Hype gap+16
Incentives71
Confidence50
securityOne report1 publisher

CISA logs attacks on more than 100 internet-exposed US water systems in one month

CISA says attackers reached programmable logic controllers over the internet during July 2026, changed IP addresses and passwords, and left some utilities unable to monitor their own equipment. No actor has been named.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption55
Hype gap+6
Incentives38
Confidence52
securityOne report1 publisher

CISA's water-sector answer is an inventory: 100-plus exposed systems, most of them PLCs

July's intrusions into US water utilities did not need an exploit. They needed a PLC on a cellular modem with nothing in front of it, and CISA's August 21 guidance is an inventory job.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption34
Hype gap+14
Incentives38
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

U.S. warning on Siemens S7 PLCs: AI-written scripts, borrowed scan data, read access first

The warning as relayed names no agency, no CVE and no actor, which leaves internet reachability as the only control operators can act on. Read access is described as preparation for writes.

Reality

Evidence26
Adoption21
Hype gap+34
Incentives52
Confidence33