WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 exploited by state-sponsored and criminal groups Attackers use ADS feature to deploy malware via malicious archives Users urged to update to WinRAR 7.13 or newer for ...

With a purported userbase of over 500 million, WinRAR is one of the world’s most popular file compression tools thanks in part to its never-ending free trial. However, with such prevalence, WinRAR is ...

A month-long phishing campaign by the Russia-aligned threat actor group FlyingYeti has been leveraging a WinRAR vulnerability to deliver the Cookbox malware to Ukrainian citizens. The Cloudforce One ...

Once upon a time, WinRAR was far and away the most popular archival software for Windows. While it isn't as ubiquitous as it once was—due both to the rise of the open-source 7-Zip as well as Microsoft ...

To split or combine RAR files in Windows 11/10, you may use WinRAR, a popular file compression/archiver software for Windows. The compression algorithm in WinRAR allows you to split a large file into ...

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In brief: Last week, a researcher discovered a vulnerability in older trial versions of the WinRAR file compression software. It allows for remote code execution---essentially allowing an attacker to ...

What you are describing is most certainly not the default behavior of winrar. When you use winrar and give it a path it will write directly to that location. This is easily verified with filemon.

The Russian 'Sandworm' hacking group has been linked to an attack on Ukrainian state networks where WinRar was used to destroy data on government devices. In a new advisory, the Ukrainian Government ...