WinRAR Italy hacked: eye to executables downloaded in recent days

If you attempt to access the winrar.it website, the unofficial Italian portal commonly used to download the WinRAR installation package, an error message will welcome you. The site was actually placed offline Thursday after the presence of malware was found in the recent version of the file and the archiving and compression program of information. The Dr. Commodore website was initially meant to report the novelty.

Those who downloaded WinRAR from winrar.it on June 19, installing the software from the game, also placed a ransomware on their machine, according to the source. It is a malware that can inaccessible some of the delicate documents stored in the scheme until a ransom (hence the name) is paid. Those who downloaded from the official website the setup set are runaway: rarlab.com.

It appears that the infected file stayed available for the entire day of June 19 or, and was taken offline only after midnight. The site is inactive even today, a sign that the executives have not yet been able to contain the issue entirely. Those who downloaded the software before June 19 should be secure, but scanning your system with an antivirus is a good idea to be more certain.

WinRAR is one of the most popular software for data compression and archiving and is available in shareware mode. It is situated in dozens of languages and for years the winrar.it portal offers a convenient way to download the Italian version. It's accessible for Windows and Android and it jumped to the headlines last February owing to a defect in the decompression method of the.ace files, which was later fixed with the WinRAR 5.70 version.