Remote Code Execution is a very serious attack, and when vulnerabilities are discovered that allow an attacker this capability, they are nearly always a critical / priority update.
They often go a little bit further than Malware, because you don’t need malicious code for an attack to be instigated, the very vulnerability in the device/code is the malware, an attacker just utilises what is already there.
Find out why:
- Consistent and quick patching is key
- Anti-malware is important