Post #160331
2026-01-27 19:42 UTC
Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious payloads.
The security issue is a path traversal flaw that leverages Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to write malicious files to arbitrary locations. Attackers have exploited this in the past to plant malware in the Windows Startup folder, for persistence across reboots.
Replies (5)
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-01-27 20:45
7z ftw.
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@yesman@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 21:28
FYI: the prefix "win" is software jargon for insecure software to let advanced users know to avoid.
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@woelkchen@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 20:44
People who still use WinRAR kinda deserve that. Seriously. WinRAR in 2026? Like WTF.
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@guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2026-01-28 08:24
Praise the lord Linus for the gift of Linux!
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@rav3n@ttrpg.network 2026-01-28 09:25
Fuck winrar and all the morons who used it.