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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. RARLAB has fixed a critical security ...

A vulnerability that impacts all the WinRAR versions released in the last 19 years has become the go-to exploit for many malware distributors over the course of the last month. Several campaigns have ...

A newly discovered zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file-compression program has been exploited for four months by unknown attackers who are using it to install malware when targets open ...

Remember that early 2000s software that extracted .zip files and just about any other file archive on your Windows PC, WinRAR? The one that constantly bugged you to buy it but could be duped by ...