Potential Impact and Risks of Zip Bomb Attacks
There are many risks associated with Zip Bomb Attacks. Some of them are as follows:
System Crashing
Since Zip Bombs uncompresses themselves, they eat up all the disk space which leads to the crashing of systems or slowing down.
CPU malfunctioning
As the space is all used up, the CPU cannot allocate resources for the desired tasks to be executed. Instead, the zip bomb uses a significant part of CPU resources.
Data Loss
Hackers often use zip bombs as a medium to damage data. They often compress the viruses which when uncompressed can result in huge data loss.
Denial of Service Attacks
Zip Bombs can be used to launch DoS attacks. Here Zip bombs target a network and use up all the servers and the bandwidth. Due to this legitimate users do not have access to the network resulting in denial of necessary services.
What is a Zip Bomb and How Does it Work?
Zip Bomb is another type of malicious attack cyber threat whose aim is to disrupt the working of the systems and steal or damage data. There are various weapons available that can be used to launch such malicious acts. Some of them include computer viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, Zip Bombs, and other attack vectors.