Researchers have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiving utility, which was exploited by Russian cybercriminals amid the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The flaw allowed criminals to override a Windows protection system known as the Mark of the Web (MoTW). By packing a file within multiple archives, culprits were able to bypass the MoTW tag, increasing vulnerability to cyberattacks. The issue was fixed with the late November release of version 24.09.

AWS, Wasabi, Cloudflare, and Backblaze go head-to-head in new cloud storage test
Cloud storage buyers rarely get vendor-provided performance data that includes the vendor’s own weak spots. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Performance Stats report, attempts to do exactly

