Unzipping Trouble: How WinRAR Became a Gateway for Hackers

WinRAR: not just your friendly file unzipper anymore! Thanks to a tasty vulnerability, it’s now a playground for state-sponsored hackers. With Russian and Chinese cyber-gangs exploiting the WinRAR vulnerability, your sensitive data is on the menu. The antidote? A tricky patch. So, dance your way to the WinRAR site and save your cyber skin.

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When you thought WinRAR was just a harmless tool to unzip your downloaded files, out come the hackers to rain on your parade. The big bad wolves of the cyber world, Russian and Chinese state-sponsored hackers, have found a nifty exploit in WinRAR that they're using to steal sensitive information. And the cherry on top? The fix is available, but you'll need to do a bit of a song and dance to get it installed.

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