Inside the Hoaxcalls Botnet: Both Success and Failure
The DDoS group sets itself apart by using exploits — but it doesn’t always pan out.
Back in October 2019 we detected a classic watering-hole attack on a North Korea-related news site that exploited a chain of Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows zero-days. While we’ve already published blog posts briefly describing this operation (available here and here), in this blog post we’d like to take a deep technical dive into the…