In recent times, during the attacks against the security and vulnerability researchers in North Korea, an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability has been discovered. The zero-day vulnerability is a computer software vulnerability unknown to individuals who need to minimize the harm. Hackers may use the vulnerability to change computer systems, files, machines, and networks to the detriment of the vulnerability.
Google announced last month that the Lazarus-sponsored state-based North Korean hacking community carried out attacks on security scholars in social engineers, wherein the hacking community used social networks as a tool to target security researchers and used custom backdoor malware. The Lazarus group is a North Korea based persistent threat group (APT), which has gained a lot of prominence in the preceding years as various CyberAttacks have been attributed to the threat group.
The threat actors have developed comprehensive online "security researcher" personas who then use social media to connect with renowned security researchers to contribute to the vulnerability and exploit growth to execute their attacks.
In this regard, the attackers have sent malignant Visual Studio Projects and links to the website that hosts the exploit kits to install backdoors in the computers of the researchers. Microsoft also announced that it had monitored the assault and saw Lazarus exchanging MHTML files containing malicious java scripts with the researchers. The server command and control at the time of the investigation was down and therefore no further payloads were investigated by Microsoft.
Recently in this social-engineering campaign, South Korean cybersecurity company ENKI claimed that Lazarus attacked MHTML files on their squad. Although the attacks were ineffective, they analyzed payloads downloaded from MHT file ..
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