Question

Explain in details what will happens if an attacker find a zero-day vulnerabilities in the product?

Answer 1

If an attacker finds a zero-day vulnerability the following things may happen

1. If he is an ethical one he will intimate that the product owners

2. If he is commercial then he will do the same thing as above by taking money

3. if he is not a commercial one or not ethical then he will use that to enter into that product and get all the sensitive data. By using that he may do any operation he wants like data exploitation, data changing, Data deletion

4. by using sensitive data he may even trouble the customers

5 May demand much money for data in exchange

6. He may release data loopholes openly into the market. He may release business secrets into the market like secret formulae of a product. This may even lead to the problem in the existence of the product even