Windows has come a long way from its wild west days, with multiple protections that guard against dangerous software. But ...

Researchers said they recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiving utility that was actively exploited ...

A 7-Zip vulnerability allowing attackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature was exploited by ...

According to the advisory, the vulnerability — identified as CVE-2025-0411 — makes it possible for hackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) security feature in Windows and remotely execute code on ...

The recently reported mark-of-the-web vulnerability in 7-Zip has been exploited by attackers in the wild to smuggle malicious ...

Russian hackers targeting Ukrainian government agencies and businesses - including a major automotive manufacturer - have ...

Russian threat groups have been observed exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in 7-Zip against Ukrainian entities.

A security vulnerability in 7-Zip allows the mark-of-the-web protection mechanism to be bypassed and code to be executed. An update is available. A security vulnerability in the popular archive ...

7-Zip added support for MotW in June 2022, starting with version 22.00. Since then, it has automatically added MotW flags (special 'Zone.Id' alternate data streams) to all files extracted from ...

Though 7-Zip probably still beats Windows 11's native file archiving performance, in terms of file support though, the former is lagging and is having to play catch-up. With beta version 24.01 ...

But attackers constantly try to evade those defenses—and recently succeeded with a 7-Zip exploit that sneaks past Windows’ normal wariness of downloaded files. Discovered by Trend Micro ...