VulnCheck Launches Canary Intelligence to Deliver Verified Real-Time Exploitation Data

VulnCheck Canary Intelligence has been launched by the exploit-intelligence company to give security teams verified, real-time proof of active exploitation from globally deployed, intentionally vulnerable systems.

Unlike traditional honeypots or second-hand threat reports, each event captured by the canaries includes authenticated details: the attacker’s source IP, the targeted CVE, and the exact payload used.

Why Canary Intelligence Brings a New Level of Confidence

Canary Intelligence replaces speculation with ground-truth telemetry. By deploying real vulnerable systems (“canaries”) across the internet, VulnCheck observes and validates attacker behavior in the wild giving defenders direct insight into what is actually being exploited, who is doing it, and how.

According to Jacob Baines, CTO at VulnCheck, this verified data enables prioritized remediation based on real-world activity not theoretical risk scores.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Deep Attribution: Correlates exploitation events with threat actors by extracting payloads, encoded commands, and attacker infrastructure.
• Actionable CVE Data: Identifies exactly which CVEs are being exploited and with what methods, helping security teams decide what to patch or monitor first.
• Accelerated Rule Coverage: Supports faster deployment and testing of detection rules (e.g., Suricata or Snort) against real attacker payloads, including variants.
• Seamless Integration: Canary data feeds into VulnCheck’s existing intelligence suite including KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities), Exploit & Vulnerability Intelligence, and IP Intelligence available via API, UI, or machine-readable streams.

Proven in Action: Real Exploitation Example

VulnCheck recently documented a live exploitation of CVE-2025-24893 (XWiki) using Canary Intelligence. The report detailed a two-stage attacker chain that triggered a template-injection vulnerability and deployed a coinminer.

The product not only confirmed the infrastructure being used but also surfaced indicators defenders can act on immediately, enhancing vulnerability response and threat-hunt workflows.

Scale & Coverage

• Canary Intelligence has observed exploitation activity for 231 KEVs, including 20 CVEs that previously had no public evidence of exploitation.
• The system has detected more than 500 CVEs in the wild, with over 230 intersecting with the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list giving security teams high-fidelity signals to guide prioritization.

Why It Matters for Security Teams

1. Early Warning: Real exploit telemetry gives security teams early visibility into attacker behavior, reducing reaction time.
2. Prioritization Precision: By confirming actual exploitation, Canary Intelligence helps prioritize patches and defenses more confidently.
3. Detection Tuning: Security teams can test and refine detection rules (IDS/IPS) using real-world payloads and attacker infrastructure.
4. Threat Attribution: Provides contextual data payloads, IPs, geolocation so organizations can map exploit activity to threat act.

Canary Intelligence is now generally available, enabling organizations to integrate verified exploitation data into their security workflows and intelligence platforms.

With this launch, VulnCheck empowers defenders to respond to vulnerabilities not based on theory, but on verified attacker behavior making vulnerability management faster, more accurate, and strategically informed.

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