FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
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Feds arrest man for sharing DVD rip of Spider-Man movie with millions online
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Soon it became dangerous to download the movie, though, as popular demand for the movie quickly put a target on downloaders' backs and scammers soon planted malware in Spider-Man movie torrents that ReasonLabs reported used the movie to "lure in as many victims as possible."
ReasonLabs said that the malware was "likely from a Russian torrenting site." It took over the would-be Spider-Man movie watchers' computers without setting off Windows Defender and with the goal of cryptomining in the background for the bad actors' benefit.
How does a video file contain malware. Or are people running exe files to watch a video?
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Some players might have vulnerabilities that people exploit; but honestly it's very rare, especially with most people auto updating their programs.
Most of the time it is indeed "download spider man no virus no survey 2023 free download.exe"
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If they're being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also
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tldr: people using Windows can get duped into running what is basically a Powershell / Shortcut to pwn themselves
I cock blocked them with Qbit even though I don't use Windows
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tldr: people using Windows can get duped
Truth.
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The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.
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