Microsoft has already expressed its frustration with Google’s decision to go public with an unpatched vulnerability in Windows, especially because it is already being exploited in the wild, but it turns out that the on-going attacks are connected to a Russian group known for political hacks.
The Redmond-based software giant explained in an advisory on its website that the recently-discovered Windows vulnerability is currently being used for attacks launched by a group called STRONTIUM, who is also known as Fancy Bear and is based in Russia.
Microsoft claims that the group conducted “a low-volume spear-phishing campaign” against a series of targets, but the company hasn’t revealed how many of these attacks were successful or not.
Spear phishing attacks generally involve messages submitted to vulnerable targets through different… (read more)
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