A security vulnerability in WinRAR allows malicious code to be executed. It is already under attack in the wild.

WinRAR patched CVE-2025-8088, a zero-day exploited by Russia RomCom in attacks on financial, defense, manufacturing and ...

ESET discovers a Russian hacking group exploiting the vulnerability to deliver malware through phishing emails. WinRAR ...

A new vulnerability in file archiving software WinRAR has come to light that can potentially install backdoor malware on ...

ESET researchers Anton Cherepanov, Peter Košinár and Peter Strýček identified the vulnerability. According to ESET expert ...

Once a malicious file is placed in these folders, it can install malware or open a hidden backdoor without any further action from the user.

A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the ...

Ever since Windows 11 started supporting the RAR archive format, there has been little reason to download – or buy – WinRAR ...

WinRAR is a popular file-archiving utility for Windows, which can create and allow viewing of archives in Roshal Archive Compressed (RAR) or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file ...

Still a dedicated WinRar user? You need to update your software right now, especially if you’ve got cryptocurrency. A zero-day vulnerability in WinRar has been allowing hackers to break into ...

Both issues were fixed with release 6.23, so if you still have a WinRAR install kicking around, make sure it’s up to date! Panic at the DNS Disco Captive portals are a security problem. Apparently.

WinRAR is a file compression and archiving tool for Windows. Developed by Eugene Roshal, a Russian software engineer, and released way back in 1995, it became popular only after the early 2000s.