Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

What would happen if you tried to play the movie (which I assume loads the subs and parses the commands — maybe) on a Mac or a PC running Linux? The article says PowerShell and it mentions Windows dependencies but I'm not sure it requires a Windows system.

I feel like my Macs would ask permission before running the code (Macs ask permission a lot, or straight up say something isn't going to run, you have to go into Settings, Security to make it run). I feel like Linux boxes wouldn't be as susceptible as Windows, either.

I'm not gonna try it because I'm not as sure about restoring a Mac system as I am with Windows. Relatively new to this system.

[-] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This is not an issue on Linux or Macs.

Even on windows, if you play the movie (so M2TS with external audio and subs), you would simply get subtitles with the PowerShell code as subtitle text at one point.

They are way over hyping this issue.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Ohhh you definitely want to be running TimeMachine backups in macOS. It's run from the system settings app, and once you connect a freshly formatted drive it will likely suggest that you use that drive.

It backs up your entire system and data, then makes hourly versions, and keeps long-term weeklies. You can restore individual files or rather easily restore the entire backup.

It’s one of the few things apple does really well.