Tag: Pirated software

1. Introduction Pirated software is the entry vector that almost no company monitors, and that is precisely why it works so well. While security teams watch phishing, exposed RDP and vendor vulnerabilities, an employee installs the latest “cracked” version of a professional tool and unwittingly hands over the keys to the domain. The BSA study based on more than 22,000 responses across 110 economies estimated that 37% of software installed worldwide is unlicensed; in Western Europe the figure was 28%. The chapter on pirated software use in the author’s book “Protocolos y procedimientos prácticos de ciberseguridad” (Confemetal, 2026) documents the …