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Google: 70% of exploited flaws disclosed in 2023 were zero-days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ByteOnBikes to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google Mandiant security analysts warn of a worrying new trend of threat actors demonstrating a better capability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in software.

Specifically, of the 138 vulnerabilities disclosed as actively exploited in 2023, Mandiant says 97 (70.3%) were leveraged as zero-days.

This means that threat actors exploited the flaws in attacks before the impacted vendors knew of the bugs existence or had been able to patch them.

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[–] ByteOnBikes 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tinfoil hat conspiracy coming up -- the large quantity of layoffs meant security has been tossed aside.

Employed engineers not having the bandwidth, resources, time to bake in better security. Literally having to do more with less.
Fired engineers may had tribal knowledge on how something worked. Now only God knows.
Unemployed engineers are bored engineers. Not saying they did the deed, but maybe they discovered it.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 month ago

That would assume that security was a priority beforehand.

Google has been known to prioritize new projects over maintaining existing ones. That would generally lead to less defined security architecture as the system is less tested.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unstaffing is corporate MO for which they don't really suffer any consequences so they will keep doing it.

If they understaff hospitals an people die...

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They already understaff hospitals. People are dying.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 month ago

They understaff non critical jobs even harder