Windows has come a long way from its wild west days, with multiple protections that guard against dangerous software. But ...

Researchers said they recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiving utility that was actively exploited ...

According to the advisory, the vulnerability — identified as CVE-2025-0411 — makes it possible for hackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) security feature in Windows and remotely execute code on ...

A 7-Zip vulnerability allowing attackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature was exploited by ...

The flaw, CVE-2025-0411 (CVSS score: 7.0), allows remote attackers to circumvent mark-of-the-web ( MotW) protections and ...

The recently reported mark-of-the-web vulnerability in 7-Zip has been exploited by attackers in the wild to smuggle malicious ...

"7-Zip File Manager didn't propagate Zone.Identifier stream for extracted files from nested archives (if there is open archive inside another open archive)," Pavlov said. Similar flaws exploited ...

Though 7-Zip probably still beats Windows 11's native file archiving performance, in terms of file support though, the former is lagging and is having to play catch-up. With beta version 24.01 ...

This helps prevent malicious scripts or executables from running automatically, prompting users to confirm before opening such files. 7-Zip added support for MotW in June 2022, in version 22.00.

An update is available. A security vulnerability in the popular archive program 7-Zip makes it possible to bypass the Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) marking of files downloaded from the Internet.

But attackers constantly try to evade those defenses—and recently succeeded with a 7-Zip exploit that sneaks past Windows’ normal wariness of downloaded files. Discovered by Trend Micro ...