State-sponsored hackers and financially motivated attackers continue leveraging a critical WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088) that’s been fixed over half a year ago. CVE-2025-8088 is a path traversal vulnerability that can be exploited via maliciously crafted RAR archives. “The exploit chain often involves concealing the malicious file within the ADS of a decoy file inside the archive. While the user typically views a decoy document (such as a PDF) within the archive, there are also malicious ADS … More
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