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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Recent Technologies and Trends in Software Engineering => Software Engineering => Cyber and Software Security => Topic started by: maruf.swe on March 29, 2019, 01:31:18 AM

Title: Critical WinRAR Flaw Found Actively Being Exploited
Post by: maruf.swe on March 29, 2019, 01:31:18 AM
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The spam campaign is being used to spread a malicious .exe file, taking advantage of a vulnerability in WinRAR which was patched in January.

A critical 19-year-old WinRAR vulnerability disclosed last week has now been spotted actively being exploited in a spam campaign spreading malware.

The campaign, discovered by researchers with 360 Threat Intelligence Center, takes advantage of a path-traversal WinRAR vulnerability, which could allow bad actors to remotely execute malicious code on victims’ machines simply by persuading them to open a file.

For More Details : https://threatpost.com/critical-winrar-flaw-found-actively-being-exploited/142204/ (https://threatpost.com/critical-winrar-flaw-found-actively-being-exploited/142204/)