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WinRAR Flaw Being Actively Used To Load Malware In Windows PCs

Recent reports by Threat Post states that the 19-year-old vulnerability found last week in the popular windows archiving tool, WinRAR, is actively being exploited by hackers around the globe. Discovered by researchers at the 360 Threat Intelligence Center, the flaw allows attackers to make use of a path-traversal vulnerability in WinRAR and run malicious code on a […]

This 19-Year-Old WinRAR Flaw Lets Hackers Load Malware To PCs

The popular windows file archival tool WinRAR has been in use for over two decades now. The software is used to view, create, pack and unpack archives in both ZIP and RAR formats. A recent report by The Register has revealed that the tool has a bug that has remained undetected since 2005. This vulnerability […]