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.
This week, we talk about how Microsoft disrupted a long-running, large-scale cybercrime-as-a-service platform called RedVDS that has been active since 2019 and was used in high-volume phishing and BEC scams (1:00), then we discuss the research from Cisco Talos on another (!) Chinese APT called UAT-8837 that is targeting critical infrastructure organizations in North America […]
The takedown marks a significant blow to the cybercrime-as-a-service ecosystem, which fuels large-scale, automated fraud.
The important-severity flaw (CVE-2025-62215) has been exploited, said Microsoft.
Microsoft issued fixes for several actively exploited vulnerabilities in its latest patch Tuesday release.