North Korea’s Lazarus APT leverages Windows Update client, GitHub in latest campaign

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The APT known as Lazarus conducted spear phishing attacks with weaponized documents masquerading as Lockheed Martin. These weaponized documents perform a series of injections to achieve startup persistence on the victims system. As part of this killchain the Windows Update service is abused for payload execution and Github is utilzed as a C2 to deliver remote commands.

Malwarebytes researches have shared a full synopsis here:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-intelligence/2022/01/north-koreas-lazarus-apt-leverages-windows-update-client-github-in-latest-campaign/

MITRE ATT&CK Lazarus profile:

https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0032/



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