Security News > 2023 > March > Hackers mostly targeted Microsoft, Google, Apple zero-days in 2022

Hackers continue to target zero-day vulnerabilities in malicious campaigns, with researchers reporting that 55 zero-days were actively exploited in 2022, most targeting Microsoft, Google, and Apple products.

According to Mandiant, most of last year's zero-day flaws were exploited by Chinese state-sponsored actors and most concerned operating systems, web browsers, and network management products.

In 2021, threat actors exploited 80 zero-day flaws in various products to perform security breaches, so the last year shows a slight decline.

Still, 2022 surpasses all other years regarding the number of zero days flaws actively exploited.

Out of the 55 zero-day flaws exploited in 2022, 13 were exploited by cyber-espionage groups, while Chinese cyberspies leveraged 7.

Regarding the targeted products, Windows was affected by 15 zero-day flaws in 2022, Chrome comes second with nine actively exploited vulnerabilities, iOS third with 5 zero days, and macOS fourth with four zero-day problems.

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