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Your Stolen WinRAR Copy Is Being Actively Exploited In The Wild, Patch ASAP

Those of you using WinRAR, Windows 10, or both should be on high alert. Two new vulnerabilities have been documented in the wild and are being actively exploited. As of this week, The National ...
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Newly discovered WinRAR exploit linked to Russian hacking group, can plant backdoor malware — zero day hack requires manual update to fix

A new vulnerability in file archiving software WinRAR has come to light that can potentially install backdoor malware on Windows PCs. The zero-day vulnerability was discovered by security researchers ...
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Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks

Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.… The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, is a ...
Bleeping Computer

WinRAR zero-day exploited to plant malware on archive extraction

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 ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

New Hacking Campaign Exploits Microsoft Windows WinRAR Vulnerability

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 ...
PC Gamer

Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

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