If you use 7-Zip, it’s time to patch. The free file-archiving program on Windows can be exploited to launch malware if it encounters a secretly booby-trapped file or website. An advisory about the ...

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Two vulnerabilities recently patched in 7-Zip could put at risk of compromise many software products and devices that bundle the open-source file archiving library. The flaws, an out-of-bounds read ...

A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user’s computer into a residential proxy node. Residential proxy networks use home user devices ...

An official version of the popular 7-zip archiving program has been released for Linux for the first time. Linux already had support for the 7-zip archive file format through a POSIX port called p7zip ...

Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New Media journalism, she has always been passionate about diving ...