you try to tell your friend “hey I sent weddingpictures.zip to your email” and your friend clicks the resulting link, thereby being redirected to a trick site that steals your SSN.
Information theft seems possible, SSN less so, but I was more concerned about downloads.
Clicking on an auto-linkified weddingpictures.zip could autodownload a zip file containing malware. You may trust your friend but the zip file is not from them.
I think the lack of auto-linkification has a lot to due with why we aren't seeing real phishing attacks using the ZIP TLD. So I feel like we warned, the industry reacted by not autolinkifying, and disaster was averted.
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Information theft seems possible, SSN less so, but I was more concerned about downloads.
Clicking on an auto-linkified weddingpictures.zip could autodownload a zip file containing malware. You may trust your friend but the zip file is not from them.
I think the lack of auto-linkification has a lot to due with why we aren't seeing real phishing attacks using the ZIP TLD. So I feel like we warned, the industry reacted by not autolinkifying, and disaster was averted.