Cybercrime and APT Groups Exploiting WinRAR Bug
Exploitation of CVE-2025-8088 in the wild began before disclosure, with attacks confirmed as early as July 18, 2025.
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Exploitation of CVE-2025-8088 in the wild began before disclosure, with attacks confirmed as early as July 18, 2025.
The vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) requires user interaction for an attack to succeed, with the most likely vector being an attacker sending a malicious Office file to a victim, who then opens it.
Threat actors are attempting to exploit the Cisco remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-20045) in the wild, according to a new security advisory.
This activity shares some similarities with a campaign that researchers at Arctic Wolf identified in December. That campaign started soon after Fortinet disclosed two authentication bypass flaws (CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719).
The flaw is in the way that the telnetd server handles some specific user-supplied data. An attacker who exploits this vulnerability would be able to bypass the authentication path and gain root privileges.
The network was linked to various attacks in 2023 and 2024, including ones against Swedish authorities and bank websites, and a wave of 14 different attacks on more than 250 German companies.