Check Point weekly brief: utility and app breaches, exploited zero-days
CenterPoint says more than 1 million Texans were exposed, while Burger King Japan cites about 11.18 million members.
CenterPoint says more than 1 million Texans were exposed, while Burger King Japan cites about 11.18 million members.
Talos says 2026 CVE volume passed 70,000 while KEV growth lagged, so discovery is not exploitation.
Silent Lynx used a WinRAR flaw and phishing to plant reverse shells on CIS government targets.
Suspected Kazakhstan-linked UAT-6275 ran at least eight espionage campaigns against former Soviet governments since 2025.
UAT-6275 used WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 to plant reverse shells on CIS government systems via malicious archives.
Kazakhstan-linked UAT-6275 targeted CIS governments using phishing and a WinRAR exploit.
TAG-193 ran regional government espionage, adding WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 exploitation to its phishing and reverse-shell toolkit.
Russia-aligned Earth Sirrush hides espionage malware in PNGs and Notepad++ plugins against Ukrainian government and defense targets.
Earth Sirrush has spear-phished Ukrainian government and logistics since 2022, possibly feeding Sandworm.
The DarkMe malware is now being delivered via simple phishing emails, abandoning the zero-days previously used to deliver the payload.
Unit 42 uncovers CL-CRI-1171, a two-year pay-per-install campaign distributing 10,000+ OfferLoader samples via YouTube and SEO poisoning.
A fake PoC for WinRAR RCE CVE-2023-40477 posted on GitHub actually deploys VenomRAT through a multi-step infection chain targeting researchers.
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