TL;DR: WinRAR has a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218) allowing remote code execution via directory traversal in Windows versions. This exploit risks sensitive data and system integrity.

Everyone's favorite file archiving utility isn't often in the news, but today is an exception. The WinRAR archiving utility has been the target of a couple of large-scale attacks that leverage a 0-day ...

One incredibly popular Windows tools has recently been updated to address a zero-day exploit that could give bad actors a chance to install malware on devices running older versions of the app. The ...

WinRAR flaw let crafted archives drop files outside target folder, including into Windows Startup New version 7.12 addresses critical path and HTML vulnerabilities Windows users urged to update WinRAR ...

Once you go out of WinRAR and try something else, you would immediately notice how dated the tool has been. This realization hit me when I switched to a modern open-source alternative that made me ...