Security News > 2022 > March > We blocked North Korea's Chrome exploit, says Google

Google on Thursday described how it apparently caught and thwarted North Korea's efforts to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome.

Exploiting the bug clears the way to compromise a victim's browser and potentially take over their computer to spy on them.

Google suspects the pair were acting on behalf of the same entity, as both used the same exploit code, though their targets and deployment techniques differed.

Once on the site, visitors were served a hidden iframe that exploited the browser bug to achieve arbitrary code execution.

The second team, Operation AppleJeus, targeted people in the cryptocurrency and fintech business, involved setting up spoof websites that hosted the exploit code as well as putting it in a hidden iframe on two compromised fintech websites.

Weidemann also said that while Google only recovered the materials for exploiting the Chrome remote code execution hole, it found evidence that the attackers also checked for Safari on macOS and Firefox, and in those cases directed them to specific pages.

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