One of the vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft Tuesday has been exploited by a Chinese cyberespionage group since at least August. The attack campaigns targeted IT companies, defense contractors and diplomatic entities.
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According to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, the malware deployed with the exploit and its command-and-control infrastructure point to a connection with a known Chinese APT group tracked as IronHusky that has been operating since 2017, but also with other China-based APT activity going back to 2012.
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