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Microsoft's Internet Explorer Gets Revived to Lure in Windows Victims

ID: e87cd69d-26a9-50a5-825f-7966a09482c4

STIX ID: report--e87cd69d-26a9-50a5-825f-7966a09482c4

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2024-07-25

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Dark Reading Staff

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Check Point and other researchers identified CVE-2024-38112, a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability in Windows exploited via Internet Shortcut files that force Internet Explorer to load malicious content and via spoofed downloads that execute .hta payloads; CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and Microsoft released a patch on July 9, while many endpoints remain insufficiently protected.

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