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?
How does a video file contain malware. Or are people running exe files to watch a video?
If they’re being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J
https://lemm.ee/post/43529674
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
https://lemdro.id/post/15143286
Truth.
The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.