A new campaign, dubbed Operation SnowMan, was been spotted leveraging a previously unknown zero-day in Internet Explorer 10 after the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars website was compromised this week. The campaign follows in the footsteps of operations DeputyDog and Ephemeral Hydra, two campaigns that recently used IE zero days to carry out watering hole attacks, dropping remote access Trojans to takeover machines. While motivation behind the campaign is still unclear, experts are speculating its aim was to procure military intelligence.
Source: https://threatpost.com/new-ie-10-zero-day-targeting-military-intelligence/104272/