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A Windows zero-day vulnerability recently patched by Microsoft was exploited by hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 , was one of six known or actively exploited before the vendor has a patch.
Microsoft warned at the time that the vulnerability was being actively exploited but provided no details about who was behind the attacks or what their ultimate objective was.
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