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In 2023, Google observed 97 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.

China Leads In Govt. Backed Exploitation Of Zero-Day Bugs: Google.

Google: "Attackers are now shifting focus to third-party components and libraries in 2023. Zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party components and libraries were a prime attack surface in 2023, since exploiting this type of vulnerability can scale to affect more than one product," said James Sadowski, Principal Analyst, Mandiant Intelligence.

China continues to lead the way for government-backed exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities and the cyber espionage groups in the country exploited 12 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023, up from seven in 2022, a Google report said on ...

Analysis from Google has found that zero-day vulnerabilities are much more heavily exploited for espionage purposes than for financially motivated cyber crime.