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FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters (arstechnica.com)
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[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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.

How does a video file contain malware. Or are people running exe files to watch a video?

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 1 points 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"

[-] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 points 2 months ago

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

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