WinRAR under attack by state-level hackers, according to Google

A flaw that was patched six months ago is still being used by hackers aligned with Russia and China, among others.

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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Hackers still exploiting WinRAR flaw even though fix was released 6 months ago

WinRAR doesn't have an auto-update function, meaning PCs are vulnerable until you manually update. The bug is still being ...

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 ...

Millions At Risk As Attackers Exploit This Alarming WinRAR Security Flaw

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