{"id":164899,"date":"2023-05-31T22:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-phishing-technique-to-allows-hacking-someone-using-zip-mov-domains"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:26:05","slug":"new-phishing-technique-to-allows-hacking-someone-using-zip-mov-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-phishing-technique-to-allows-hacking-someone-using-zip-mov-domains","title":{"rendered":"New phishing technique to allows hacking someone using.zip &amp;.mov domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-phishing-technique-to-allows-hacking-someone-using-zip-mov-domains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a victim visits a website ending in. ZIP, a recently developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitynewspaper.com\/2022\/11\/07\/dont-open-emails-from-microsoft-dynamics-365-threat-actors-are-exploiting-its-flaws-to-send-phishing-emails-with-legitimate-microsoft-links\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">phishing<\/a> method known as \u201cfile archiver in the browser\u201d may be used to \u201cemulate\u201d file-archiving software in the target\u2019s web browser.<\/p>\n<p>According to information published by a security researcher named mr.d0x <a href=\"https:\/\/mrd0x.com\/file-archiver-in-the-browser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">last week<\/a>, \u201cwith this phishing attack, you simulate a file archiver software (e.g., WinRAR) in the browser and use a.zip domain to make it appear more legitimate,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, threat actors could develop a realistic-looking phishing landing page using HTML and CSS that replicates genuine file archiving software. They could then host the website on a.zip domain, which would elevate social engineering tactics to a higher level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a victim visits a website ending in. ZIP, a recently developed phishing method known as \u201cfile archiver in the browser\u201d may be used to \u201cemulate\u201d file-archiving software in the target\u2019s web browser. According to information published by a security researcher named mr.d0x last week, \u201cwith this phishing attack, you simulate a file archiver software [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}