With a purported userbase of over 500 million, WinRAR is one of the world’s most popular file compression tools thanks in part to its never-ending free trial. However, with such prevalence, WinRAR is ...

WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 exploited by state-sponsored and criminal groups Attackers use ADS feature to deploy malware via malicious archives Users urged to update to WinRAR 7.13 or newer for ...

A month-long phishing campaign by the Russia-aligned threat actor group FlyingYeti has been leveraging a WinRAR vulnerability to deliver the Cookbox malware to Ukrainian citizens. The Cloudforce One ...

Once upon a time, WinRAR was far and away the most popular archival software for Windows. While it isn't as ubiquitous as it once was—due both to the rise of the open-source 7-Zip as well as Microsoft ...

WinRAR is a commonly used application to compress many files and folders into a single archive file. The archive can then be stored as a backup or sent to customers or clients, which is an easy method ...

To split or combine RAR files in Windows 11/10, you may use WinRAR, a popular file compression/archiver software for Windows. The compression algorithm in WinRAR allows you to split a large file into ...

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A vulnerability that impacts all the WinRAR versions released in the last 19 years has become the go-to exploit for many malware distributors over the course of the last month. Several campaigns have ...

A newly discovered zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file-compression program has been exploited for four months by unknown attackers who are using it to install malware when targets open ...