Only one in 20 vulnerabilities are exploited in the wild, claim researchers

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Of 76,000 security flaws unearthed between 2009 and 2018, only 4,183 were exploited in the wilds by attackers

Only 5.5 per cent of all vulnerabilities present in computing systems are ever exploited in the wild. That's according a new study by a joint team of researchers from Cyentia, RAND Corporation, ...

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