This Russian cybercrime campaign can infect a user just by viewing an email
Pro Security This Russian cybercrime campaign can infect a user just by viewing an email News By Sead Fadilpašić Published 26 July 2026 A high-severity flaw in Zimbra allowed Russian hackers easy access When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. It was assigned a severity score of 7.2/10 (high), and was patched in November 2025. However, the threat actors have been leveraging it long before Zimbra patched it up.Proofpoint says numerous groups were observed, throughout the years, abusing this flaw.
- ▪Pro Security This Russian cybercrime campaign can infect a user just by viewing an email News By Sead Fadilpašić Published 26 July 2026 A high-severity flaw in Zimbra allowed Russian hackers easy access When you purchase through links on ou
- ▪It was assigned a severity score of 7.2/10 (high), and was patched in November 2025.
- ▪However, the threat actors have been leveraging it long before Zimbra patched it up.Proofpoint says numerous groups were observed, throughout the years, abusing this flaw.
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| Original publisher | TechRadar |
| Canonical URL | https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/this-russian-cybercrime-campaign-can-infect-a-user-just-by-viewing-an-email |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:30:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T11:33:03.622Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T11:33:03.622Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Pro Security This Russian cybercrime campaign can infect a user just by viewing an email News By Sead Fadilpašić Published 26 July 2026 A high-severity flaw in Zimbra allowed Russian hackers easy access When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Proofpoint reports Russian TA488 exploited Zimbra zero‑day CVE‑2025‑66376 in espionage campaigns“Half‑click exploit” let attackers compromise systems when victims merely viewed malicious emailsTargets included NATO, Ukrainian government, and defense entities;…
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