Russia-linked RomCom isn’t bringing flowers — they’re exploiting WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 to drop executables in Windows Startup folders like a creep moving in uninvited.
Persistence via Startup folder (T1547.001)
Encrypted C2 exfiltration with heavy obfuscation (T1041)
Lateral movement courtesy of Impacket tools (T1021.002)
If you haven’t patched to WinRAR 7.13+, you’re basically leaving the keys under the doormat. Bonus: they’ll bring ransomware for dessert.
📌 Question: Would your monitoring even notice a new file quietly moving into Startup at 2 a.m.?
Read the breakdown before they RSVP for good:
https://blog.alphahunt.io/romcoms-winrar-exploit-persistent-startup-folder-attacks-and-encrypted-c2-exfiltration-targeting-critical-sectors
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