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

But attackers constantly try to evade those defenses—and recently succeeded with a 7-Zip exploit that sneaks past Windows’ ...

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

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

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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.