{"id":232652,"date":"2026-03-06T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-says-90-zero-days-were-exploited-in-attacks-last-year"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:24:31","slug":"google-says-90-zero-days-were-exploited-in-attacks-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-says-90-zero-days-were-exploited-in-attacks-last-year","title":{"rendered":"Google says 90 zero-days were exploited in attacks last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-says-90-zero-days-were-exploited-in-attacks-last-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 90 zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited throughout 2025, almost half of them in enterprise software and appliances.<\/p>\n<p>The figure is a 15% increase compared to 2024, when 78 zero-days were exploited in the wild, but lower than the record 100 zero days tracked in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Zero-day vulnerabilities are security issues in software products that attackers exploit, usually before the vendor learns about them and develops a patch. They are highly valued by threat actors because they often enable initial access, remote code execution, or privilege escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 90 zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited throughout 2025, almost half of them in enterprise software and appliances. The figure is a 15% increase compared to 2024, when 78 zero-days were exploited in the wild, but lower than the record 100 zero days tracked in 2023. Zero-day vulnerabilities are security issues [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}