The Ups and Downs of 0-days: A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022

Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG)

This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild [2021, 2020, 2019] and builds off of the mid-year 2022 review. The goal of this report is not to detail each individual exploit, but instead to analyze the exploits from the year as a whole, looking for trends, gaps, lessons learned, and successes. 

Executive Summary

41 in-the-wild 0-days were detected and disclosed in 2022, the second-most ever …

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