MUO on MSN

I ditched WinRAR for this open-source tool and it's not 7-Zip

All the power of 7-Zip, without the 2005 vibes.
XDA Developers on MSN

Criminals are exploiting a 2025 WinRAR bug because nobody is updating their app

Or reading the warnings, apparently.

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 ...
PCMag on MSN

Hackers Still Exploiting WinRAR Flaw Even Though Fix Was Released 6 Months Ago

WinRAR doesn't have an auto-update function, meaning PCs are vulnerable until you manually update. The bug is still being widely exploited, Google security researchers warn.
HotHardware

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 ...

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 ...

Millions At Risk As Attackers Exploit This Alarming WinRAR Security Flaw

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