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> Can you quickly tell which of the URLs below is legitimate and which one is a malicious phish that drops evil.exe?

Yes? When you hover the first link the browser says "v1271.zip", and when you hover the second link it says "https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/archive/refs/tags/v..."

You don't even need a .zip domain to do this, just assign a misleading link i.e. [google.com](badsite.com). If the argument is going to be no one looks at the on hover link preview, then why bother even paying for a .zip domain in the first place? Going further, you can also just buy a similar domain to confuse people, which might even work better than buying the .zip since then you _might_ even catch careful people that glance at the on hover preview.

parent mooman219 3 years ago

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