Microsoft has been monitoring the targeted attacks against vulnerability researchers for months and attributed the attacks to a DPRK group named ‘Zinc’ Earlier this week, Google disclosed that a North Korean government-backed hacking group has been using social networks to target security researchers. As part of the attacks, the threat actors would ask researchers to collaborate on vulnerability research and then attempt to infect their computers with a custom backdoor malware. Other researchers track this hacking group under the well-known name ‘Lazarus’ Microsoft has also been tracking this threat actor, who they track as ‘ZINC,’ for the past couple of months.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-dprk-hackers-likely-hit-researchers-with-chrome-exploit/