A sophisticated group of cybercriminals, the ones who have previously conducted the DeputyDog and Ephemeral Hydra campaigns, are using an Internet Explorer zero-day in a new operation dubbed SnowMan.
Security researchers from FireEye have spotted the zero-day exploit, which impacts IE 9 and 10, on the website of the US Veterans of Foreign Wars (vfw.org). Experts believe that this is part of an attack targeting US military personnel.
The cybercriminals behind this att…