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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.

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ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If they’re being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J

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ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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

lemdro.id/post/15143286

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- Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  tldr: people using Windows can get duped
  
  Truth.
  
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”

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