New figures released by Microsoft underscore the importance of updating to the latest operation system, since the stats show that the majority of Windows zero-day vulnerabilities cannot be used to attack the latest Windows versions. Since 2015, 38.2% of zero-days could be exploited on the latest OS versions, while the remaining 61.8% did not put those systems at risk.
The most common reason that flaws did not work against the latest Windows editions was that newly introduced OS mitigations prevented exploitation (66.7%). In addition, 23.8% of zero-days simply did not impact newer systems.
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