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Cybersecurity

Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware

March 15, 2019

Via: ArsTechnica

Malicious hackers wasted no time exploiting a nasty code-execution vulnerability recently disclosed in WinRAR, a Windows file-compression program with 500 million users worldwide. The in-the-wild attacks install malware that, at the time this post was going live, was undetected by […]


Cybersecurity

Nasty code-execution bug in WinRAR threatened millions of users for 14 years

February 20, 2019

Via: ArsTechnica

WinRAR, a Windows file compression program with 500 million users worldwide, recently fixed a 14-year-old vulnerability that made it possible for attackers to execute malicious code when targets opened a booby-trapped file. The vulnerability was the result of an absolute […]