CSOonline

WinRAR users urged to upgrade to fix critical vulnerabilities

Users are advised to upgrade their WinRAR installations to fix two high-severity flaws that attackers could exploit to execute arbitrary code. The RAR archive format, which is associated with WinRAR, ...
Windows Central

WinRAR has a major security bug, and you have to install its fix manually

Attackers can utilize a bug to execute code on your PC when you open zipped files. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WinRAR has a ...
Bleeping Computer

Details emerge on WinRAR zero-day attacks that infected PCs with malware

Researchers have released a report detailing how a recent WinRAR path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited in zero-day attacks by the Russian 'RomCom' hacking group to drop ...
Lifehacker

You Need to Update WinRAR Right Now

RARLAB has fixed a critical security vulnerability in the popular file compression software WinRAR. This vulnerability allows hackers to execute commands on your Windows PC if you simply open a ...
Bleeping Computer

Google links WinRAR exploitation to Russian, Chinese state hackers

The CVE-2023-38831 WinRAR flaw has been under active exploitation as a zero-day since at least April 2023, allowing threat actors to gain code execution on their targets' systems by tricking them into ...