State-Sponsored Threat Actors Target Security Researchers

This blog was co-authored by Caitlin Condon, VRM Security Research Manager, and Bob Rudis, Senior Director and Chief Security Data Scientist. On Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG published a blog on a widespread social engineering campaign that targeted security researcher...

North Korea Targets Security Researchers in Elaborate 0-Day Campaign

Hackers linked to North Korea are targeting security researchers with an elaborate social-engineering campaign that sets up trusted relationships with them — and then infects their organizations’ systems with custom backdoor malware. That’s according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, which...

Microsoft Windows - Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) Local Privilege Escalation

Microsoft Windows - Advanced Local Procedure Call ALPC Local Privilege Escalation Note: PoC will now hijack the print spooler service - spoolsv.exe - as it required less code then hijacking printfilterpipelinesvc.exe, which was shown in the original video demo Description of the vulnerability The...