Microsoft MSHTML Flaw the Silent Doorway for MerkSpy Malware

A newly discovered campaign is deploying MerkSpy, a sophisticated surveillance spyware engineered to clandestinely monitor and harvest data from a victim’s computer without their awareness or consent. Unidentified threat actors are leveraging the previously patched CVE-2021-40444 security vulnerability in Microsoft MSHTML to disseminate MerkSpy.