Comment on When lemmy.zip was announced, a few people were concerned about the .zip, as it could create security issues. Has it been the case so far? Has anyone ever been blocked by a work firewall due to .zip?

BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get what’s more concerning about the .zip TLD than any other one.

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  • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are just more likely to be scam like, particularly since they can be assumed to be a file at a glance.

    Even more deviously, crafty urls like this further hides what you are actually doing, like this:

    github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tag…

    Hover it with your cursor, watch what that actually links too, no markup cheating involved. Anything before the @ is just user information. Imagine clicking that and thinking you downlodaed a tagged build, only to get a malware?

    It’s not the end of the world, but as a developer it makes great sense to just auto-block it to avoid an incident. The above URL is from this article, which says it’s not as big of huge problem too:

    www.theregister.com/…/google_zip_mov_domains/

    But it’s kind of a death by a thousand cuts to me, because it’s another thing with another set of consideration accross the internet ecosystem that one will have to deal with.

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Software that creates hyperlinks whenever it finds text that might be a URL, combined with ubiquitous use of .zip extension for compressed files.

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  • ceiphas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ZIP Files are a constant source of exploits and Malware.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are there any exploits that have ever made use of TLD <-> file extension confusion? This seems really unlikely to help pull off an attack, even if the TLD was .exe, but maybe I’m overly optimistic.

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