The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has released a report detailing trends in zero-day vulnerability exploitation, showing an increasing focus on enterprise technologies in 2024.
According to GTIG’s analysis, 75 zero-day vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the past year. This figure represents a decrease from the 98 observed in 2023 but remains higher than the 63 recorded in 2022, reflecting what the group describes as a four-year trend of gradual growth in zero-day exploits.
A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in software that is exploited before the software vendor has issued a corrective patch. These vulnerabilities are especially valued by both nation-state actors and financially motivated cybercriminals because of the access and stealth they can…