This Google Threat Intelligence Group report presents an analysis of detected 2024 zero-day exploits.
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, a decrease from the number we identified in 2023 (98 vulnerabilities), but still an increase from 2022 (63 vulnerabilities). We divided the reviewed vulnerabilities into two main categories: end-user platforms and products (e.g., mobile devices, operating systems, and browsers) and enterprise-focused technologies, such as security software and appliances.
Vendors continue to drive improvements that make some zero-day exploitation harder, demonstrated by both dwindling numbers across multiple categories and reduced observed attacks against previously popular targets. At the same time, commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) appear to be increasing their operational security practices, potentially leading to decreased attribution and detection.
We see zero-day exploitation targeting a greater number and wider variety of enterprise-specific technologies, although these technologies still remain a smaller proportion of overall exploitation when compared to end-user technologies. While the historic focus on the exploitation of popular end-user technologies and their users continues, the shift toward increased targeting of enterprise-focused products will require a wider and more diverse set of vendors to increase proactive security measures in order to reduce future zero-day exploitation attempts.
M-Trends 2025 data is based on more than 450,000 hours of Mandiant Consulting investigations. The metrics are based on investigations of targeted attack activity conducted between Jan. 1, 2024 and Dec. 31, 2024. Key findings in M-Trends 2025 include:
55% of threat groups active in 2024 were financially motivated, which marks a steady increase, and 8% of threat groups were motivated by espionage.
Exploits continue to be the most common initial infection vector (33%), and for the first time stolen credentials rose to the second most common in 2024 (16%).
The top targeted industries include financial (17.4%), business and professional services (11.1%), high tech (10.6%), government (9.5%), and healthcare (9.3%).
Global median dwell time rose to 11 days from 10 days in 2023. Global median dwell time was 26 days when external entities notified, 5 days when adversaries notified (notably in ransomware cases), and 10 days when organizations discovered malicious activity internally.
M-Trends 2025 dives deep into the aforementioned infostealer, cloud, and unsecured data repository trends, and several other topics, including:
Democratic People's Republic of Korea deploying citizens as remote IT contractors, using false identities to generate revenue and fund national interests.
Iran-nexus threat actors ramping up cyber operations in 2024, notably targeting Israeli entities and using a variety of methods to improve intrusion success.
Attackers targeting cloud-based stores of centralized authority, such as single sign-on portals, to gain broad access.
Increased targeting of Web3 technologies such as cryptocurrencies and blockchains for theft, money laundering, and financing illicit activities.
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We agree - modern security engineering is hard - but none of this is modern. We are discussing vulnerability classes - with no sophisticated trigger mechanisms that fuzzing couldnt find - discovered in the 1990s, that can be trivially discovered via basic fuzzing, SAST (the things product security teams do with real code access).
As an industry, should we really be communicating that these vulnerability classes are simply too complex for a multi-billion dollar technology company that builds enterprise-grade, enterprise-priced network security solutions to proactively resolve?
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