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Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

A zero-day (also known as a 0-day) is a vulnerability in software or hardware that is typically unknown to the vendor and for which no patch or other fix is available. The vendor has zero days to prepare a patch as the vulnerability has already been described or exploited.

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