If they’re being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also
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d00ery@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 months ago
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
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tldr: people using Windows can get duped
Truth.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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”