URLs have always been a great hiding place for threat actors

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.

Talos’ recent blog post on the dangers posed by the newly released “.zip” top-level domain (TLD) recently outlined how threat actors could create real URLs that look like file names and trick users into clicking on their links. .Zip and other TLDs that share characters with filename extensions also opens the door to accidental information leaks.

But these are far from the first TLDs to be problematic for users, especially …

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