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A zero-day (or zero-hour or day zero) attack or threat is an attack that exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer application, meaning that the attack occurs on "day zero" of awareness of the vulnerability.
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Why would an attacker ever want to sit on a zero-day exploit?
Another reason is they can't use it (optimally) at the moment. Examples are:
They might have a specific target like a diplomat in mind but the exploit requires to be in the same Ethernet-/WiFi-netwo …
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