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Downloading Game of Thrones may hide dangerous malware
- NedIsakoff 7y agoOkay, I am confused here but perhaps I'm missing something. It's a TV show right? So if you download something wouldn't it be an AVI file or a MKV file. How do you do malware in an AVI or MKV file?
- actionowl 7y agoAn exploit in the codecs. https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Thiel/Whitepaper/bh-eu-08-thiel-WP.pdf https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Thiel/Wh...
- pwg 7y agoOne possibility is that it is a fake upload with a name of the form: game_of_thrones.mkv.exe Just like with a lot of email spam malware, and the hope is windows users will launch it without realizing it is really an executable, not a video file.