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Hacktivists Exploits WinRAR Vulnerability in Attacks Against Russia and Belarus
2024-09-03 13:29

A hacktivist group known as Head Mare has been linked to cyber attacks that exclusively target organizations located in Russia and Belarus. "Head Mare uses more up-to-date methods for obtaining initial access," Kaspersky said in a Monday analysis of the group's tactics and tools. "For instance, the attackers took advantage of the relatively recent CVE-2023-38831 vulnerability in WinRAR, which


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2023-08-23 CVE-2023-38831 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity vulnerability in Rarlab Winrar
RARLAB WinRAR before 6.23 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code when a user attempts to view a benign file within a ZIP archive.
local
low complexity
rarlab CWE-345
7.8