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WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine

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Published June 12, 2026
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WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine

Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released.

The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka Gamaredon) and SHADOW-EARTH-066 (aka UAC-0226). It involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal flaw that allows an

Original report published on: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/winrar-flaw-exploited-by-russia-aligned.html