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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors, including SHADOW-EARTH-066 and Earth Dahu, are actively exploiting a patched WinRAR path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088) to target Ukrainian organizations. The attackers use crafted RAR archives with NTFS Alternate Data Streams to silently drop malicious payloads, such as the evolved GIFTEDCROOK infostealer or HTA-based espionage tools, into the Windows Startup folder and ProgramData directories.
Storm-1175 is a financially motivated threat actor that rapidly exploits N-day and zero-day vulnerabilities in web-facing assets to deploy Medusa ransomware. The group utilizes a high-tempo attack chain, leveraging LOLBins, RMM tools, and credential theft to move laterally and exfiltrate data before executing ransomware, often completing the entire attack lifecycle within days.
The Warlock ransomware group (Water Manaul) has enhanced its attack chain by exploiting Microsoft SharePoint servers for initial access and deploying a sophisticated post-exploitation toolkit. The group leverages BYOVD techniques via the NSecKrnl.sys driver to disable security tools, establishes redundant C&C channels using legitimate tools like Velociraptor and Cloudflare Tunnels, and automates ransomware deployment domain-wide using Group Policy Objects (GPO).
Threat actors are leveraging WebDAV and Windows File Explorer to deliver Remote Access Trojans (RATs) while bypassing traditional web browser security controls. By utilizing .url and .lnk shortcut files pointing to WebDAV servers hosted on temporary Cloudflare Tunnels, attackers can trick users into executing malicious scripts that appear as local files.
