‘Good News,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai Post Over New Report On Cyberattacks – India.com

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While expressing a happiness about new report by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a post on X New report from our Threat Analysis Group + Mandiant observed 97 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 2022.”

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Google recently revealed a report, which observed 97 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild which is over 50 percent more than in 2022, but still less than 2021’s record of 106. Google published its fifth annual review ‘A review of zero-day in-the-wild exploits in 2023′ report’

“Good news: investments are making a difference – vulnerabilities once common are virtually non-existent today,” Sundar Pichai added.

What Is A Zero-Day Attack?

There could be unpatched security flaws in computer software, hardware, or firmware. Cyber attackers find such loopholes in the software to launch an attack which is called as A zero-day attack.

What Are Google’s Zero-Day In-The-Wild Exploits Reports Findings ?

In the report, We’re All in this Together: A Year in Review of Zero-Days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2023,” released by Google to find out zero-days that were actively exploited against both end-user platforms and products (e.g. mobile devices, operating systems, browsers, and other applications) and enterprise-focused technologies such as security software and appliances.

• Google’s MiraclePtr & Apple’s introduction of Lockdown mode for iOS, prevents exploitation of use-after-free vulnerabilities in Chrome and halt many exploit chains used in-the-wild.
• Report found that Zero-day vulnerabilities in third party components and libraries were a prime attack surface in 2023.
• Adversary exploitation of enterprise-specific technologies in 2023, increased by a 64 percent in the total number of vulnerabilities as compared to the previous year.

Recommendations In The Google Report

1. Industry should bring more transparency and disclosure about such attacks and share lessons and patches publicly.
2. Organizations need to build defensive strategies that prioritize threats that are most likely to cause damage to themselves and others.
3. Build strong security foundations so the attackers can’t be successful with simpler attacks.
4. While designing the product, Software and product vendors should prepare the response when in-the-wild zero-day is discovered targeting their product.
5. For high risk users like iPhone users or Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) who use a Pixel 8, can enable Lockdown mode.