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7-Zip 0-day was exploited in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine

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A zero-day vulnerability in the 7 -Zip archiving utility was actively exploited as part of Russia 's 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, works by placing a “Zone. Identifier” tag.

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