Hackers have weaponized a WinRAR path-traversal flaw tracked as CVE-2025-8088 to silently plant a Startup shortcut and run a multi-stage PowerShell loader that maps a headerless, reflectively loaded PE in memory. The campaign reuses the Ukrainian reconnaissance-themed lure seen in earlier UAC-0226/GIFTEDCROOK activity but significantly advances operational packaging: instead of relying on a user to […]

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Mayura Kathir

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