News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support Google has issued a warning about a sophisticated exploit kit being used to target news media, IT, crypto, and fintech personnel. The attackers were reportedly state-sponsored North Korean groups.
Cybersecurity is almost always in the news due to the evolving threats from malicious actors as well as the defenses that are being built by organizations to combat these problems. Today, Google has issued a warning about state-sponsored hackers form North Korea attempting to exploit vulnerabilities — now fixed — in Chrome. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that on January 4, 2022, it noticed deployments of an exploit kit in Chrome. Then on February 10, it tracked activity from two North Korea-backed groups exploiting the same issue too. The targets were primarily U.
