I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg

I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg

A zero-day hunter has told The Register of the “holy f**k” moment when he realised he'd been targeted by a North Korean campaign aimed at stealing Western researchers' vulns.


Alejandro Caceres said he "thought it was insane" that he had been targeted by state-backed malicious people operating as part of a campaign revealed last night by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

"When I read the Google thing I honestly think I said out loud 'holy fuck', I thought it was insane. Attacked by a nation state? Me!?" Caceres, co-founder of the Hyperion Gray security research company, told El Reg.


Enraged by the deception, Caceres also offered a hefty bounty for information leading to the arrest of "James Willy", who appears to be one of the North Korean actors engaged on the ..

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