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Vulnerabilities

7-Zip Ships Emergency Fix for Flaw That Lets Booby-Trapped Archives Run Code

Version 26.02 patches a heap buffer overflow in XZ decompression. There is no auto-update, so users have to grab it themselves.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Fake 7-Zip Downloads Are Quietly Turning Home PCs Into Criminal Middlemen

A group Infoblox calls Lurking Lizard has been running a rogue proxy service from 230+ lookalike sites since 2022, hiding the malware inside fake copies of the popular 7-Zip file compression tool.

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