Attacks Using the Newly Released .ZIP Domain Showcased by Researcher

Following Google's decision to offer a new wave of eight top-level domains (TLDs), including .zip, a security researcher showed how attackers could use this domain in a phishing scheme. The TLDs Google made available are .dad, .phd, .prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov, and .nexus. From a cybersecurity perspective, the most interesting one is .zip because it makes way for new attacks. Security researcher mr.d0x showed how criminals could imitate the looks and functionality of a file-archiving softwar