Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open

Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships...

New XWorm 7.1 and Remcos RAT Attacks Abuse Windows Tools to Evade Detection

New XWorm 7.1 and Remcos RAT campaigns abuse trusted Windows tools to evade detection. The attacks exploit a WinRAR flaw and use process hollowing to spy on victims...

Hackers Still Using Patched WinRAR Flaw for Malware Drops, Warns Google

The Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG warns that nation-state actors and financially motivated threat actors are exploiting a…...

Bitter APT Exploiting Old WinRAR Vulnerability in New Backdoor Attacks

South Asian hacking group Bitter APT-Q-37 is deploying a C backdoor using two new methods: a WinRAR flaw and malicious Office XLAM files, targeting government and military sectors...

Zero-Day Exploit in WinRAR File

A zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR is being exploited by at least two Russian criminal groups: The vulnerability seemed to have super Windows powers. It abused alternate data streams, a Windows feature that allows different ways of representing the same file path. The exploit abused that feature ...

Cloudflare Warns of India-Linked Hackers Targeting South and East Asian Entities

An advanced threat actor with an India nexus has been observed using multiple cloud service providers to facilitate credential harvesting, malware delivery, and command-and-control C2. Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare is tracking the activity under the name SloppyLemming, which ...

Exploit for Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Rarlab Winrar

CVE-2023-38831 A POC demo on CVE-2023-38831 Brief description...

UAC-0099 Hackers Using Old WinRAR Flaw in New Cyberattack on Ukraine

By Waqas UAC-0099 is a pro-Russian hacking group that has been targeting Ukraine since the conflict between the two countries began. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UAC-0099 Hackers Using Old WinRAR Flaw in New Cyberattack on Ukraine...

Russian APT28 Hackers Targeting 13 Nations in Ongoing Cyber Espionage Campaign

The Russian nation-state threat actor known as APT28 has been observed making use of lures related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war to facilitate the delivery of a custom backdoor called HeadLace. IBM X-Force is tracking the adversary under the name ITG05, which is also known as BlueDelta, Fancy...

Experts Uncover DarkCasino: New Emerging APT Threat Exploiting WinRAR Flaw

A hacking group that leveraged a recently disclosed security flaw in the WinRAR software as a zero-day has now been categorized as an entirely new advanced persistent threat APT. Cybersecurity company NSFOCUS has described DarkCasino as an "economically motivated" actor that first came to light i...

SideCopy Exploiting WinRAR Flaw in Attacks Targeting Indian Government Entities

The Pakistan-linked threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed leveraging the recent WinRAR security vulnerability in its attacks targeting Indian government entities to deliver various remote access trojans such as AllaKore RAT, Ares RAT, and DRat. Enterprise security firm SEQRITE describe...