{"id":6021,"date":"2025-08-09T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/winrar-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-romcom-hackers-in-phishing-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:03:48","slug":"winrar-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-romcom-hackers-in-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/winrar-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-romcom-hackers-in-phishing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"WinRAR zero-day exploited to plant malware on archive extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    WinRAR zero-day exploited to plant malware on archive extraction<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as\u00a0CVE-2025-8088 was\u00a0exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lawrence Abrams<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/winrar-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-romcom-hackers-in-phishing-attacks\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WinRAR zero-day exploited to plant malware on archive extraction A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as\u00a0CVE-2025-8088 was\u00a0exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware. [&#8230;] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-6021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}