: A technical preprint (available on arXiv) that discusses the collisions between the namespace for filenames and DNS names.

: An Overview of Threats Exploring the Confusion Between Top-Level Domains and File Type Extensions

: June 19, 2024, in CODASPY '24: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy .

The domain stronka.zip became famous as a proof-of-concept for a technique popularized by researcher Bobby Rau .

: An analysis of 17,000 .zip domains that found over 600 active Windows Trojans hosted on these sites as of March 2024.

: Browsers actually treat everything before the @ as "user info" and only care about what follows it.

: A user who thinks they are downloading a file from a trusted source is instead sent to the stronka.zip website, which can trigger an automatic malware download. Other Noteworthy Studies