Google: 70% of exploited flaws disclosed in 2023 were zero-days
Google: 70% of exploited flaws disclosed in 2023 were zero-days
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.
This thread desperately wants Google to be at fault rather than accept that attacks are easier than ever with highly sophisticated and learning cracking models.
The thread, like Lemmy, is filled with software engineers and IT professionals who are angry that almost all major tech companies are destaffing and want to use this as a reason that destaffing is bad.
Security likely a shit show before, especially if more successful attacks previously were of known flaws that weren't patched.
When pleasing the investors becomes top priority, everything else turns into shit.
Tinfoil hat conspiracy coming up -- the large quantity of layoffs meant security has been tossed aside.
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Employed engineers not having the bandwidth, resources, time to bake in better security. Literally having to do more with less.
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Fired engineers may had tribal knowledge on how something worked. Now only God knows.
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Unemployed engineers are bored engineers. Not saying they did the deed, but maybe they discovered it.
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.
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...
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This is actually fantastic news it means people are patching their shit and now TA's have to spend significant resource finding new methods. For the gen pop this is good news. For nation state targets less so but thats a much smaller pool of victims.
Global espionage actors are being better funded, and executing longer-term plays against less expected targets.