How are hackers able to find such complicated exploits?
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A zero-day is a computer-software vulnerability that is unexploited. That is the explanation for its name. Once it is first used by the exploiter it has a limited time available to maximize its usefulness. These exploits are often written in to programs by coders and sold to other people.
Zero day vulnerabilities can be bought on the dark web.
Zero day exploits are either unknown to those who should be interested in its removal or known but a patch has not been developed.
Until the vulnerability is removed, hackers can exploit it to adversely affect programs, data, additional computers or a network.
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