Zip domains are being abused again to trick victims into a phishing scam

A fish hook is lying across a computer keyboard, representing a phishing attack on a computer system

Not even a month has passed since Google first started offering .zip internet domains, and people have already found a clever and creative way to abuse it for malware distribution.

The scam revolves around turning the web browser window into a fake WinZip or WinRAR instance and tricking the victim into believing they’re opening a legitimate file archive while, in reality, they’re downloading malware.