🕳️ Vulnerabilities & CVEs

WinRAR's Sneaky Path Traversal Bug Lets Hackers Hide in Plain Sight—Russia, China, and Crooks Pile On

Picture this: you unzip what looks like a legit PDF from a shady email. Next login, malware fires up automatically. That's the WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 nightmare still playing out for millions.

theAIcatchup Apr 08, 2026 4 min read
Exploit chain diagram showing WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 dropping LNK to Startup folder

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 uses ADS and path traversal to stealthily drop malware into Windows Startup. 𝕏
  • Russia-nexus and China actors target Ukraine with geopolitical lures; financial groups join for profit. 𝕏
  • Slow patching keeps this alive—architectural flaws in WinRAR and Windows enable persistent abuse. 𝕏
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Originally reported by Mandiant Blog

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