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NamesOperation WizardOpium (Kaspersky)
CountryNorth Korea North Korea
MotivationInformation theft and espionage
First seen2019
Description(Kaspersky) Kaspersky Exploit Prevention is a component part of Kaspersky products that has successfully detected a number of zero-day attacks in the past. Recently, it caught a new unknown exploit for Google’s Chrome browser. We promptly reported this to the Google Chrome security team. After reviewing of the PoC we provided, Google confirmed there was a zero-day vulnerability and assigned it CVE-2019-13720.

We are calling these attacks Operation WizardOpium. So far, we have been unable to establish a definitive link with any known threat actors. There are certain very weak code similarities with Lazarus Group, Hidden Cobra, Labyrinth Chollima attacks, although these could very well be a false flag. The profile of the targeted website is more in line with earlier DarkHotel attacks that have recently deployed similar false flag attacks.
ObservedCountries: South Korea.
Tools used
Information<https://securelist.com/chrome-0-day-exploit-cve-2019-13720-used-in-operation-wizardopium/94866/>
<https://securelist.com/windows-0-day-exploit-cve-2019-1458-used-in-operation-wizardopium/95432/>
<https://securelist.com/the-zero-day-exploits-of-operation-wizardopium/97086/>

Last change to this card: 02 July 2020

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