Researchers said they recently discovered a zero day vulnerability in the 7 Zip archiving utility that was actively exploited as part of Russia ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The vulnerability allowed a Russian cybercrime group to override a Windows protection designed to limit the execution of files downloaded from the Internet. The defense is commonly known as MotW, short for Mark of the Web . It works by placing a “Zone.Identifier” tag on all files downloaded from the Internet or from a...
