According to cyber security professionals, ZIP and RAR files have overtaken Office documents as the file most used by cyber criminals to deliver malware, according to an analysis of real-world cyberattacks and data collected from millions of PCs. The research, based on customer data found in the period between July and September 2022, 42% of attempts at delivering malware attacks used archive file formats, including ZIP and RAR.
That means cyberattacks attempting to exploit ZIP and RAR formats
