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Defused

Cyber threat intelligence company that runs honeypots to detect and report in-the-wild exploitation attempts against newly disclosed vulnerabilities.

Known aliases

  • Defused Cyber
  • Defused researchers

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Defused decoys logged exploit attempts on SonicWall's CVSS 10.0 SMA1000 flaw two days after disclosure

Defused researchers say first exploitation attempts reached their decoys on 8 October, two days after SonicWall disclosed its CVSS 10.0 SMA1000 flaw. The advisory, last updated 6 October, still says there is no evidence of exploitation.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
securityConfirmed4 publishers

SAP patches a maximum-severity Python SDK flaw that redirects OAuth2 token requests through tenant_subdomain

SAP fixed CVE-2026-89111, a maximum-severity OAuth2 SSRF in its Cloud SDK for Python, in a 20-flaw October 2026 update. A multi-tenant BTP app that lets outside input set tenant_subdomain can send its client credentials to an attacker until it is patched or allowlisted.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 24%
Operator
Operator 64%
Investor
Investor 12%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence78
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Three days from patch to probe: SAP Commerce Cloud RCE is already being hunted

CVE-2026-58231 is an unauthenticated, CVSS 10.0 code execution bug in Commerce Cloud's Data Hub Adapter. Defused says attempts hit its honeypots three days after patch day.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 21%
Operator
Operator 66%
Investor
Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption55
Hype gap+25
Incentives45
Confidence68
securityConfirmed7 publishers

Citrix called it a crash bug. It is unauthenticated RCE, and CISA gave agencies three days.

CVE-2026-8452 shipped as a June 30 denial-of-service fix. A WatchTowr proof of concept turned it into pre-auth code execution, and in-the-wild exploitation followed.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 14%
Operator
Operator 80%
Investor
Investor 6%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption50
Hype gap−40
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence74
securityOne report1 publisher

Attackers dump PaperCut databases through the freshly patched auth bypass chain

PaperCut shipped emergency fixes for CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 on Thursday and Friday, and by the weekend Defused was watching honeypot intruders bypass authentication and read database tables instead of running code.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption58
Hype gap+18
Incentives58
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

Honeypots logged a SharePoint JWT bypass hunting for a Business Data Catalog sink

Attackers are forging tokens SharePoint accepts, then enumerating management APIs and probing Business Connectivity Services for the execution sink. BleepingComputer reports nobody has seen that last step land.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption42
Hype gap+18
Incentives30
Confidence48
buildOne report1 publisher

A Commerce Cloud RCE chain reached a honeypot three days after the patch shipped

CVE-2026-58231 chains a default auth client with missing input validation in SAP's Data Hub Adapter. The fix needs a rebuild and redeploy; the attackers needed 72 hours.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption28
Hype gap+12
Incentives38
Confidence44
securityOne report1 publisher

SharePoint flaw went from PoC to honeypot hits in a day, and Microsoft's advisory is still silent

CVE-2026-55040 was patched in July. Rapid7 published the technical details and a script on August 11, and Defused says its honeypots logged exploitation on August 12.

Publishers:securityweek.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption34
Hype gap+12
Incentives62
Confidence57