WinRAR exploit reportedly remains widely-used by China and Russia state actors despite patch — vulnerability allows malicious archives to deliver a hidden paylo

WinRAR exploit reportedly remains widely-used by China and Russia state actors despite patch — vulnerability allows malicious archives to deliver a hidden paylo

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Li Ken-un Despite the ubiquity of fast internet and cloud storage, archiving apps like WinRAR, WinZip, and 7-Zip remain popular among some users. That’s because they allow you to package multiple files and folders into one clean file and allow for encryption and password protection. Aside from that, they also compress the file size, reducing the amount of data needed to download them and helping save on data costs. None of these are my primary reason for using archiving solutions. I use WinRAR because most file handling products (cloud syncing, auto-backup, etc.) couldn’t be bothered to handle file metadata with care. Windows has a “creation date” timestamp for files, which most often gets lost. “Modification date” is usually better handled, but there are no guarantees. Inside a WinRAR archive, that file system metadata is traveling with the file no matter what happens in transit. Reply

excalibur1814 "Russia state actors" What the heck are Russian film stars doing this for?! Reply

King_V excalibur1814 said: "Russia state actors" What the heck are Russian film stars doing this for?! https://i.imgflip.com/1kg48q.jpg Reply

DingusDog I definitely missed that WinRAR security warning but I uninstalled it a while ago and just use the built in Win11 extractor. Reply

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