New Internet Explorer, Chrome zero-days highlight a growing market
Hackers are still using vulnerabilities in the seven-year-old Internet Explorer 11 browser to go after targets, even as Microsoft plans to sunset the program in less than a year, researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group reported Wednesday. The campaign largely targeted victims in Armenia. In April and June, cybercriminals targeted Armenian users with the exploit, researchers found. “This exploit was delivered via an Office document rather than via the Internet Explorer browser GUI,” explained Shane Huntley, director of Google’s Threat Analysis Group “Even if a user was to uninstall Internet Explorer, the exploit would still work.” Microsoft fixed the exploit in June. The same surveillance group exploited a vulnerability in Chrome. They sent the exploits via email with links posing as legitimate websites. They were instead attacker-controlled domains that fingerprinted a user’s device and allowed hackers to determine if they would send the exploit. The vulnerability existed in code shared […]
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