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WinRAR Zero-Day Exploited by Russian-Linked Hackers RomCom and Paper Werewolf Your email has been sent Cybersecurity researchers have identified an actively exploited flaw in WinRAR that attackers are ...

A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached ...

ESET Research discovered a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR being exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents; the weaponized archives exploited a path traversal flaw to compromise ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in WinRAR has been exploited in the wild by the Russia-aligned cyber group RomCom. According to an advisory published by ESET researchers earlier today, the flaw, ...

What just happened? A serious security flaw has been discovered in the Windows version of WinRAR, prompting urgent warnings for users to update immediately. The vulnerability – tracked as ...

A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware. The flaw is a directory traversal vulnerability that was ...

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