Re:Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
by XparXnoiAx on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:24AM
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The study says that most vulnerabilities were being exploited before being disclosed.
Re:Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
by fulafel on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:47AM
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I don't think it says that about the set of all vulnerabilities (IOW - citation needed!).
It does say "In this paper, we consider only exploits that have been used in real-world attacks before the corresponding vulnerabilities were disclosed" so it's unsurprising that in their dataset this is the case :)
Re:Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
by XparXnoiAx on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:16PM
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Yeap, you're right, I misread. Here is a quote from the paper: "15% of these exploits were created before the disclosure of the corresponding vulnerability." So there's a lower bound.
It doesn't support your assertion but it's still interesting 2008-2010 data from an antivirus vendor. It's talking about about how long some vulnerabilities were exploited by malware before getting disclosed, use in targeted attacks, and so on.