Further reading: 6 ways hackers sidestep your two-factor authentication Microsoft The Russian attackers targeted ...

However, 7-Zip doesn’t have an automatic update feature, so many users are still using outdated versions of the app that are still vulnerable to this MotW exploit. If you haven’t updated 7-Zip ...

As a result, when double-clicking risky files extracted using 7-Zip, users will be warned that opening or running such files could lead to potentially dangerous behavior, including installing ...

Girnus said the following agencies were targeted: Anyone using 7-Zip, particularly on Windows, should ensure they’re using the latest version, which at the moment is 24.09.

CVE-2025-0411 allows threat actors to defeat MoTW by using 7-Zip's archive creation feature to double archive the contents. In fact, Russian cybercrime groups have been attacking by embedding ...

Anyone using 7-Zip should update to version 24.09 or later to fix this vulnerability. As 7-Zip does not have an integrated update mechanism, it is necessary to visit the 7-Zip website, download ...

There are a variety of ways to encrypt data, but the one we will be using in this guide is password protecting a file using 7-zip. How to encrypt files using 7-zip 1. On your QMUL Managed desktop or ...

.TAR.GZ, .TGZ or .GZ. files are typically seen with software installers on Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu and macOS for data archival and backups. But they are sometimes used for regular ...

The threat actors exploiting the 7-Zip zero-day used homoglyphs in a similar way to make executable files appear to be document files. Click to expand... Just curious how this works. If certain ...