Google Warns Attackers Are Getting Worryingly Good At Exploiting Zero-Days
techradar.pro, Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Better detection tools have forced hackers to move faster
The exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, flaws abused before the developers built a fix, is growing faster than the exploitation of n-day vulnerabilities (those for which a patch is already available), according to a report from Google Mandiant's cybersecurity researchers, who describe it as a 'worrying trend'.
The researchers recently analyzed 138 exploited vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2023, and concluded that 70% were abused as zero-days, while 30% were n-days.
In previous years, the ratio was closer to 60% for zero-days, and 40% for n-days, meaning the crooks are growing increasingly reliant on zero-day vulnerabilities.