With a purported userbase of over 500 million, WinRAR is one of the world’s most popular file compression tools thanks in part to its never-ending free trial. However, with such prevalence, WinRAR is ...

WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 exploited by state-sponsored and criminal groups Attackers use ADS feature to deploy malware via malicious archives Users urged to update to WinRAR 7.13 or newer for ...

Older WinRAR versions let malicious archives override the user-specified path via crafted archives, enabling stealthy system compromise. Cybersecurity researchers have identified an actively exploited ...

Once upon a time, WinRAR was far and away the most popular archival software for Windows. While it isn't as ubiquitous as it once was—due both to the rise of the open-source 7-Zip as well as Microsoft ...

If you’re still using WinRAR, you should update to version 7.12 as soon as possible. A vulnerability labeled CVE-2025-6218 was recently discovered in older versions of the popular Windows file ...

WinRAR doesn’t have an auto-update feature, but you’ll want to go ahead and patch it right now. WinRAR doesn’t have an auto-update feature, but you’ll want to go ahead and patch it right now. is a ...

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 ...

A new, extensive review of 15 archive applications was posted this week at DonationCoder.com, and of course, I take full responsibility for it; just one guy spending a month doing some real-world ...

The Russian 'Sandworm' hacking group has been linked to an attack on Ukrainian state networks where WinRar was used to destroy data on government devices. In a new advisory, the Ukrainian Government ...