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Russian Cybercrime Groups Exploiting 7-Zip Flaw to Bypass Windows MotW Protections
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Russian Cybercrime Groups Exploiting 7-Zip Flaw to Bypass Windows MotW Protections

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Andy Stern
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A recently patched security vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiver tool was exploited in the wild to deliver the SmokeLoader malware.The flaw, CVE-2025-0411 (CVSS score: 7.0), allows remote attackers to circumvent mark-of-the-web (MotW) protections and execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. It was addressed by 7-Zip in November 2024 with version 24.09.”The vulnerability was

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