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

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 curre...