Still a dedicated WinRar user? You need to update your software right now, especially if you’ve got cryptocurrency. A zero-day vulnerability in WinRar has been allowing hackers to break into trading ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. If you use WinRAR, it’s time to update. The ...

It's 2025, and WinRAR has a security vulnerability that could help a hacker take control of your system. While most folks have stopped using WinRAR in favor of other archive tools, if you have WinRAR ...

Sometimes a client or colleague needs to send you large files. One common way to handle large files is to compress them into a ZIP package to make the file size more reasonable for transmission over ...

Using compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR shrinks files so they take up less space. This makes zip and rar files ideal for sharing over email or by USB drive. However, some types of files, ...

A WinRar zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831 was actively exploited to install malware when clicking on harmless files in an archive, allowing the hackers to breach online cryptocurrency ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Security researchers identified a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218) in older WinRAR versions that allows hackers to bypass security features and execute malicious files from extracted ...

Users of the popular file-compression tool are urged to immediately update after a serious code-execution flaw was found in WinRAR. Popular Windows data compression tool WinRAR has patched a serious ...

Government-backed hackers from Russia and China exploited a known vulnerability in outdated versions of WinRAR, the world’s most popular compression tool with over 500 million users. Google’s Threat ...

WinRAR, one of the world's most popular Windows file compression applications, has patched last month a severe security flaw that can be abused to hijack users' systems just by tricking a WinRAR user ...

Scammers are at it again - taking advantage of Google sponsored ads for acquiring traffic in order to redirect it to malware-infected copies of legitimate software. win.rar GmbH is warning users of an ...