Hundreds remain vulnerable to the exploit.
More than 7,500 exposed CrushFTP instances have been detected.
According to an analysis by Censys, of the 7,524 observed, 989 exposed CrushFTP11 instances were found - which included 287 that exposed a version which is vulnerable to the exploit.
“These exposures include our observations of CrushFTP web interfaces, which is where we were able to identify versions,” the company said. “Exposed banners indicating CrushFTP on the FTP service did not reveal any versions.”
Initial detections suggested that there were around 1500 instances exposed to the ongoing intrusion. A proof-of-concept exploit was recently published for the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2825.
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