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๐Ÿšจ When WinRAR goes full-on horror movie ๐ŸŽƒ: 2 squads vibing with a high-sev 0-day! ๐Ÿ’€ #NoCap #Cringe
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๐Ÿšจ When WinRAR goes full-on horror movie ๐ŸŽƒ: 2 squads vibing with a high-sev 0-day! ๐Ÿ’€ #NoCap #Cringe

August 12, 2025
3 days ago
Ars Technica
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‘€ Breaking News in the tech world, or should I say... "Booooring News?" ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ’ค Grab your popcorn, because WinRAR just dropped its newest feature: letting cybercriminals waltz into your computer like itโ€™s a VIP club! ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ•บ So, hereโ€™s the scoop: two Russian hacker squads decided to throw a party with a high-severity 0-day exploit in WinRAR ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ฐ. Yup, thatโ€™s right! While you were busy sending memes to the group chat, they were on a phishing trip, sliding into your DMs with malicious archives, and backdooring your computer like itโ€™s an *exclusive* TikTok event! ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’€ ESET, the cyber vigilantes we never asked for, spotted the chaos on July 18 - they saw a file in a directory path so fishy it could give a sushi restaurant a run for its money. ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿฃ And by July 24, they were like, "This is fine." ๐Ÿ˜‚ Developer quote leak: "We thought it was just a bad Monday! Now weโ€™re like Drake pointing at our ruined PCs!" ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿคจ Hereโ€™s a hot take: with this kind of chaos, WinRAR could soon become the new "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" course. So, if your files start acting sus, maybe it's time to *uninstall* WinRAR, fam. Just sayinโ€™. ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿš€ Stay safe out there, and remember: **install at your own risk, or you might end up being the star of a new horror meme!** ๐Ÿ“‰๐Ÿ”ฎ

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#WinRAR#zero-day#cybersecurity#phishing#malware
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