A hacking campaign took just days to exploit a newly disclosed security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows version of WinRAR, researchers at Check Point have said. The attackers leveraged ...

PCWorld reports that Google’s Threat Intelligence Group discovered state-sponsored hackers from Russia and China actively exploiting a critical WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088). This security flaw ...

A wide range of adversaries including state-sponsored actors are targeting a vulnerability in popular file extraction software WinRAR that was addressed last year. The vulnerability impacts a wide ...

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WinRAR, that little app many of us installed years ago to “just open that one file”, has been compromised by hackers. This time, it’s not the usual “update available” situation. There’s a flaw so bad ...

Older WinRAR versions let malicious archives override the user-specified path via crafted archives, enabling stealthy system compromise. Cybersecurity researchers have identified an actively exploited ...

The popular file archiving tool WinRAR had a serious zero-day vulnerability threatening systems with code execution attacks. While WinRAR has now addressed the flaw, it turns out that the zero-day ...

A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached ...

ESET Research discovered a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR being exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents; the weaponized archives exploited a path traversal flaw to compromise ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in WinRAR has been exploited in the wild by the Russia-aligned cyber group RomCom. According to an advisory published by ESET researchers earlier today, the flaw, ...

A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware. The flaw is a directory traversal vulnerability that was ...

Security researchers have discovered a new flaw in WinRAR that was recently exploited to spread malware through phishing emails. The flaw, CVE-2025-8088, can be harnessed through maliciously crafted ...