By Eduard Kovacs on August 12, 2020
An attack launched in May 2020 against a South Korean company involved an exploit that chained zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer, Kaspersky reported on Wednesday.
The campaign, named by the company “Operation PowerFall,” may have been launched by DarkHotel, a threat actor that has been known to target entities with an interest in North Korea and which some believe may be sponsored by South Korea.
However, Kaspersky pointed out that it did not find a definitive link and the assumption that Operation PowerFall is the work of DarkHotel is based on similarities with previously discovered exploits.
