Zero-Day Attacks Target Traders with WinRAR Security Flaw Exploited

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Zero-Day Attacks Target Traders with WinRAR Security Flaw Exploited

A flaw in the popular WinRAR archiving software has been exploited as a zero-day since April 2023.

New findings from Group-IB reveal that the booby-trapped archive file is created such that it contains an image file and a folder with the same name.

CVE-2023-38831 is caused by a processing error in opening the file in the ZIP archive, Polovinkin told The Hacker News.

It’s not yet known who is behind the attacks leveraging the WinRar flaw.

recent cases of exploitation of CVE-20 2323-38731 remind us of the constant risks connected to software vulnerabilities, Polovaninkin said.

According to him, these cases demonstrate the importance of exploiting vulnerabilities.

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