While researching the latest activities of the infamous cyber criminal group Lazarus, Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a number of compromised servers being used as part of the threat actor's global command and control infrastructure, the software company said. "The compromised servers, found in Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, among others, could be used by Lazarus to launch targeted attacks against a company or organisation," Kaspersky Lab said in a statement. The US, China and India are top three countries housing maximum number of compromised servers, the Kaspersky Lab report said. The US tops the list with the most vulnerable servers (11,949), while United Kingdom ranks 5th with 805," the report said. Kaspersky Lab said that researchers have discovered that the servers had been infected using malware called Manuscrypt, which could have been installed using a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services that was patched by Microsoft on June 13, 2017.

Source: Economic Times October 24, 2017 09:00 UTC