WinRAR is pretty good, but 7-Zip is better.

Sometimes a client or colleague needs to send you large files. One common way to handle large files is to compress them into a ZIP package to make the file size more reasonable for transmission over ...

WinRAR has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times on Windows PCs, and if you're one of those users, you need to update ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Security researchers have discovered a security vulnerability within the popular compression software WinRAR, which leaves PCs exposed to hackers. A new ...

March 16, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Last month a 19-year-old bug was discovered in WinRAR, the software many PC users use to extract .zip and other ...

The latest version of the shareware app patches a rather significant security flaw dubbed CVE-2023-40477, allowing hackers to access memory beyond the allocated buffer. The flaw would give hackers ...

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A WinRar zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831 was actively exploited to install malware when clicking on harmless files in an archive, allowing the hackers to breach online cryptocurrency ...

Researchers have released a report detailing how a recent WinRAR path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited in zero-day attacks by the Russian 'RomCom' hacking group to drop ...

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 ...

Government-backed hackers from Russia and China exploited a known vulnerability in outdated versions of WinRAR, the world’s most popular compression tool with over 500 million users. Google’s Threat ...