{"id":355,"date":"2024-08-19T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T10:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=355"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:08:45","slug":"microsoft-patches-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-north-koreas-lazarus-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/microsoft-patches-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-north-koreas-lazarus-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by North Korea&#8217;s Lazarus Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A newly patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows was exploited as a zero-day by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2023\/10\/lazarus-group-targeting-defense-experts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lazarus Group<\/a>, a prolific state-sponsored actor affiliated with North Korea. The security vulnerability, tracked as\u00a0<strong>CVE-2024-38193<\/strong>\u00a0(CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for WinSock. &#8220;An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges,&#8221; Microsoft\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/vulnerability\/CVE-2024-38193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0in an advisory for the flaw last week. It was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/08\/microsoft-issues-patches-for-90-flaws.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">addressed<\/a>\u00a0by the tech giant as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/microsoft-patches-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-north-koreas-lazarus-group\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/08\/microsoft-patches-zero-day-flaw.html?m=1\">Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by North Korea&#8217;s Lazarus Group (thehackernews.com)<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by North Korea&#8217;s Lazarus Group<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows was exploited as a zero-day by\u00a0Lazarus Group, a prolific state-sponsored actor affiliated with North Korea. The security vulnerability, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2024-38193\u00a0(CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for WinSock. &#8220;An attacker who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[31,39,48],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-vulnerability","tag-31","tag-north-korea","tag-privilege-escalation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}