A spate of malicious emails with attachments delivering the NanoCore remote access trojan (RAT) is evading anti-malware and email scanners by abusing the .ZIPX file format.

Once the .zipx file is unpacked by the recipient, using archive utilities WinRAR or 7zip (interestingly, WinZip fails to extract the executable), the remote access trojan (RAT) infects the device ...

According to researchers, the WinRAR utility is one of the only file decompressing utilities that reliably open and decompress this .zipx archive.

New Zealand-based software developer SubRosaSoft Ltd. has announced the release of ZipX, a new utility designed to create file archives based on the ZIP format. ZipX runs natively in Mac OS X and ...