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Here is what the fake 7-Zip installer does behind the scenes, how it maintains persistence, and what steps to take if you have been affected.

A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user's computer into ...

A fake version of the popular 7-zip download is secretly hijacking home computers and using them to route criminal internet ...

When people talk about file compression, they usually mean ZIP. In fact, they often make it into a verb–much like we “Google” things on the Internet, we “zip” files before sending them over email. But ...

7-Zip is a popular, powerful, and versatile file archive utility that you can use to compress or decompress files and folders. The free and open source software is something of a Swiss Army Knife ...

A threat actor could abuse the popular archiving app, 7-zip and gain elevated privileges on a device to which they already have access. A GitHub user going by the name Kagancapar discovered a zero-day ...

There has been an ever-increasing number of vulnerabilities and malware rearing their ugly heads lately. One of the most common things these malware will attempt to do is gain elevated permissions to ...

PSA: A security researcher recently discovered a vulnerability in the file archiver 7-Zip that could grant attackers high privileges and let them execute code. Developers haven't released a patch yet, ...

Update 4/22/21: A bug was discovered last night that allowed victims to recover their 7zip password for free but was fixed soon after being discovered. You can find more info in the update below.