A zip bomb is a malicious archive file designed to crash or disable a system by overwhelming its resources during decompression.
: They work by exploiting the way compression algorithms handle repetitive data, essentially "tricking" the software into decompressing the same block of data repeatedly. Common Variations BigBoobyzip
: Modern antivirus software and operating systems are generally better at detecting these files before they are opened by scanning the headers for suspicious compression ratios. A zip bomb is a malicious archive file