{"id":230567,"date":"2026-02-05T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-amaranth-dragon-cyberespionage-group-exploits-winrar-flaw"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:23:10","slug":"new-amaranth-dragon-cyberespionage-group-exploits-winrar-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-amaranth-dragon-cyberespionage-group-exploits-winrar-flaw","title":{"rendered":"New Amaranth Dragon cyberespionage group exploits WinRAR flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-amaranth-dragon-cyberespionage-group-exploits-winrar-flaw.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new threat actor called Amaranth Dragon, linked to APT41 state-sponsored Chinese operations, exploited the CVE-2025\u20138088 vulnerability in WinRAR in espionage attacks on government and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers combined legitimate tools with the custom Amaranth Loader to deliver encrypted payloads from command-and-control (C2) servers behind Cloudflare infrastructure, for more accurate targeting and increased stealth.<\/p>\n<p>According to researchers at cybersecurity company Check Point, Amaranth Dragon targeted organizations in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new threat actor called Amaranth Dragon, linked to APT41 state-sponsored Chinese operations, exploited the CVE-2025\u20138088 vulnerability in WinRAR in espionage attacks on government and law enforcement agencies. The hackers combined legitimate tools with the custom Amaranth Loader to deliver encrypted payloads from command-and-control (C2) servers behind Cloudflare infrastructure, for more accurate targeting and increased [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,1490,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-government","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}