Chen Doytshman is a Senior Lead Security Researcher at Akamai. With knowledge in both application security and machine learning, he strives to solve complex cybersecurity-related problems with machine learning methods and techniques. What is particularly concerning is how much of shift upward this attack type has garnered over the last several weeks. Executive summary \r\n \r\n Akamai researchers have been monitoring the effects of the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability outlined in CVE-2022-26134 since it was made public on June 2, 2022. \r\n \r\n Since the disclosure, we have been seeing an average of approximately 6,000 IPs attempting to exploit the Atlassian vulnerability every day. \r\n \r\n Exploitation attempts have settled at around 20,000 per day, after peaking at almost 100,000 attempts per day a few days after release. \r\n \r\n More than 50% of the malicious IPs were previously identified by Akamai Client Reputation.…