diff --git a/lib/wpscan/db/updater.rb b/lib/wpscan/db/updater.rb
index 1cd3a47a..57693802 100644
--- a/lib/wpscan/db/updater.rb
+++ b/lib/wpscan/db/updater.rb
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ module WPScan
         res = Typhoeus.get(file_url, request_params)
         raise Error::Download, res if res.timed_out? || res.code != 200
 
-        File.open(file_path, 'wb') { |f| f.write(res.body) }
+        File.binwrite(file_path, res.body)
 
         local_file_checksum(filename)
       end
diff --git a/wpscan.gemspec b/wpscan.gemspec
index b037b66d..b20b7d9f 100644
--- a/wpscan.gemspec
+++ b/wpscan.gemspec
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency 'rake',                '~> 13.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'rspec',               '~> 3.10.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'rspec-its',           '~> 1.3.0'
-  s.add_development_dependency 'rubocop',             '~> 1.23.0'
+  s.add_development_dependency 'rubocop',             '~> 1.24.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'rubocop-performance', '~> 1.13.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'simplecov',           '~> 0.21.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'simplecov-lcov',      '~> 0.8.0'