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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...