--- title: "CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day" url: https://daily.dev/posts/cve-2024-21412-water-hydra-targets-traders-with-microsoft-defender-smartscreen-zero-day-rwydfytvf source_url: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/b/cve202421412-water-hydra-targets-traders-with-windows-defender-s.html type: article source: "Trend Micro" published: 2024-02-13T20:16:03.905Z updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z tags: ["zero-day"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day **[Trend Micro](https://daily.dev/sources/trendmicro)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Water Hydra is targeting financial market traders with a zero-day exploit (CVE-2024-21412) in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. The vulnerability has been patched by Microsoft. Water Hydra is an APT group known for its attacks on the financial industry. They have previously exploited another vulnerability (CVE-2023-38831) before it was disclosed. The article also provides information on Water Hydra's attack chain and the DarkMe malware. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#zero-day](https://daily.dev/tags/zero-day) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/cve-2024-21412-water-hydra-targets-traders-with-microsoft-defender-smartscreen-zero-day-rwydfytvf)