North Korea's APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware

The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 aka ScarCruft has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery...

North Korean ScarCruft Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Spread RokRAT Malware

The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Windows to infect devices with malware known as RokRAT. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-38178 CVSS score: 7.5, a memory corruption bug in the Scripting Engine...

PT-2024-5547

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Edge versions prior to the fixed version Microsoft Windows 10 version 1507 prior to 10.0.10240.20751 Description The vulnerability is related to a memory corruption issue in the Windows Scripting Engine, which can be exploited by...

N. Korean ScarCruft Hackers Exploit LNK Files to Spread RokRAT

Cybersecurity researchers have offered a closer look at the RokRAT remote access trojan that's employed by the North Korean state-sponsored actor known as ScarCruft. "RokRAT is a sophisticated remote access trojan RAT that has been observed as a critical component within the attack chain, enablin...

North Korea's ScarCruft Deploys RokRAT Malware via LNK File Infection Chains

The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft started experimenting with oversized LNK files as a delivery route for RokRAT malware as early as July 2022, the same month Microsoft began blocking macros across Office documents by default. "RokRAT has not changed significantly over the years, bu...

Tonto Team Uses Anti-Malware File to Launch Attacks on South Korean Institutions

South Korean education, construction, diplomatic, and political institutions are at the receiving end of new attacks perpetrated by a China-aligned threat actor known as the Tonto Team. "Recent cases have revealed that the group is using a file related to anti-malware products to ultimately execu...