Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. RARLAB has fixed a critical security ...

With a purported userbase of over 500 million, WinRAR is one of the world’s most popular file compression tools thanks in part to its never-ending free trial. However, with such prevalence, WinRAR is ...

Although it isn’t yet built into Windows, Microsoft has finally released its own file undelete tool—it’s called Windows File Recovery, and it works with the newest builds of Windows (variously known ...

WinRAR doesn’t have an auto-update feature, but you’ll want to go ahead and patch it right now. WinRAR doesn’t have an auto-update feature, but you’ll want to go ahead and patch it right now. is a ...

WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 exploited by state-sponsored and criminal groups Attackers use ADS feature to deploy malware via malicious archives Users urged to update to WinRAR 7.13 or newer for ...

A month-long phishing campaign by the Russia-aligned threat actor group FlyingYeti has been leveraging a WinRAR vulnerability to deliver the Cookbox malware to Ukrainian citizens. The Cloudforce One ...

Once upon a time, WinRAR was far and away the most popular archival software for Windows. While it isn't as ubiquitous as it once was—due both to the rise of the open-source 7-Zip as well as Microsoft ...

To split or combine RAR files in Windows 11/10, you may use WinRAR, a popular file compression/archiver software for Windows. The compression algorithm in WinRAR allows you to split a large file into ...

This post explains how to convert files to RAR format in Windows 11/10. Microsoft has recently announced that users of Windows 11 will soon get native support for RAR files and several other archive ...

In brief: Last week, a researcher discovered a vulnerability in older trial versions of the WinRAR file compression software. It allows for remote code execution---essentially allowing an attacker to ...

Kind of strange news item for me personally. While WinRAR was once and for a really long time a "staple app" for me I haven't used or had it installed in years. I really have to admire WinRAR's ...