Cyber threat actors known as Amaranth-Dragon have exploited a critical WinRAR flaw, CVE-2025-8088, to target Southeast Asian governments and law enforcement in espionage campaigns throughout 2025. This path traversal vulnerability lets attackers craft malicious RAR archives that drop scripts into the Windows Startup folder for persistent code execution on reboot. Check Point Research linked the […] The post Hackers Use WinRAR Vulnerability To Gain Persistent Control via Amaranth-Dragon appeared first on Cyber Security News.