north korea

2 articles · newest first

A laptop running Windows in a dim office setting, at night

North Korean hackers had a Windows bug for weeks before Microsoft even knew about it

Check Point caught the exploit chain in the wild before Microsoft's own August Patch Tuesday shipped the fix — and this one installs a kernel-mode rootkit.

Priya Nair · Aug 26 · 6 min

A person typing on a laptop in a dark room, representing a cyberattack

Software

North Korea hid a Windows zero-day inside fake job offers for five weeks

Lazarus used a bug in a core Windows driver to grab SYSTEM access and disable antivirus — Microsoft patched it Tuesday, weeks after North Korea started using it.

Priya Nair · Aug 13 · 7 min