Google warns that a well-known exploit for WinRAR is still in widespread use by Russian and Chinese threat actors

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Millions At Risk As Attackers Exploit This Alarming WinRAR Security Flaw

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Months After Patch, WinRAR Bug Poised to Hit SMBs Hardest

Russian and Chinese nation-state attackers are exploiting a months-old WinRAR vulnerability, despite a patch that came out ...
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Google links WinRAR exploitation to Russian, Chinese state hackers

Google says that several state-backed hacking groups have joined ongoing attacks exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR, a compression software used by over 500 million users, aiming to ...
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WinRAR, Which You Totally Paid For, Was Under Siege By Zero-Day Attacks

Everyone's favorite file archiving utility isn't often in the news, but today is an exception. The WinRAR archiving utility has been the target of a couple of large-scale attacks that leverage a 0-day ...
Ars Technica

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

Kind of strange news item for me personally. While WinRAR was once and for a really long time a "staple app" for me I haven't used or had it installed in years. I really have to admire WinRAR's ...