HWP Documents

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2018
Lazarus APT hackers leverages HWP Documents in a recent string of attacks

Security researchers at AlienVault uncovered a series of cyber attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges leveraging weaponized Hangul Word Processor HWP documents (Hangul Word Processor documents). The string of attacks involving the HWP documents has been attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group, and includes the hack of the South Korean virtual currency exchange Bithumb. The hackers […]