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Technology
Amber Bouman

This popular Windows utility for ZIP files has a dangerous vulnerability

Malware.

Early versions of 7-Zip, a file compression program, are affected by a security flaw with a severity score of 7.8 out of 10.

Disclosed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative and first discovered by Trend Micro Security researcher Nicholas Zubrisky back in June of this year, the flaw affects all 7-Zip versions prior to 24.07 and allows attackers to execute code on a victim’s machine.

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