WinRAR under attack by state-level hackers, according to Google

WinRAR, a tool for unpacking compressed files, is one of those pillars of everyday PC use that’s kind of faded into the ...

Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

Google has warned that well-known and already-patched exploit for the WinRAR file archiving and compression tool for Windows ...
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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 ...

Patched WinRAR vulnerability remains a favorite tool for hackers and spies

The WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was discovered and patched in July 2025, but the popular file archiver continues to suffer from its fallout. According to ...
Lifehacker

You Need to Update WinRAR Right Now

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. RARLAB has fixed a critical security ...
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Create open a RAR file: Mac, Windows, mobile

Press OK to confirm the process. To create an RAR files directly from the WinRAR program, simply use the Add feature within the software. How to open a RAR file on Windows? Open the archive by ...
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A vulnerability that enables arbitrary code execution just by opening a file with the long-established compression decompression software 'WinRAR' is discovered, and a modified ...

It has been reported that a vulnerability ' CVE-2023-40477 ' has been discovered in WinRAR, a file compression/decompression software for Windows, that allows ...