![]() In short: they have a much bigger target on their back.” In a Forbes article, Adrian Taylor from the Google Chrome Security Team explained that zero-day attacks are due to “the dramatic rise in the popularity of Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, are also key factors. No hacker will use a finely crafted zero-day if they can use a set of unchanged default credentials instead, and similarly, when presented with two potential targets, the less well-defended one will always be the first choice.” They will always go for the easier option, which applies just as much to their choice of victims as it does to what methods they use to attack them. ITPro provides a different view: “Hackers are lazy. Now You: what is your take on these new Heart–“Actually no, Firefox has nominally (not actually) fewer vulnerabilities because it’s a less attractive target and thus less attacked.”
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