grumpy_cat ( Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club ) Banned from community to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 6 months agoGrandma we only use torrents for games, or to transfer things.thelemmy.clubimagemessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up1176
arrow-up1176imageGrandma we only use torrents for games, or to transfer things.thelemmy.clubgrumpy_cat ( Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club ) Banned from community to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square40linkfedilink
minus-squareCassa ( Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agosry, but that’s just straight up wrong. You can hide malware in video files (both mp4 and mkv are great containers!) and you can disguise your virus as a video.
minus-squareglibg10b ( glibg10b@lemmy.zip ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoThat’s like encoding malware in a picture and calling it dangerous
minus-squareCassa ( Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoyes? opening a picture with malware could infect your computer. It would be a combination attack, so the virus would either target the correct media player or several of em. here is a older vulnurability with vlc and avi file https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25801 it is absolutely far less risky than downloading programs that run code, but it’s not without any risk edit: windows programs also lets files call home. Script Command in windows media player f.ex 🤷
minus-squareglibg10b ( glibg10b@lemmy.zip ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoLike I said, no one’s wasting a 0-day on a lemming like you or me
minus-squareroot ( IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agokern.exe.mp4 LOL and the rest are 0days that sell for millions
sry, but that’s just straight up wrong. You can hide malware in video files (both mp4 and mkv are great containers!) and you can disguise your virus as a video.
That’s like encoding malware in a picture and calling it dangerous
yes? opening a picture with malware could infect your computer.
It would be a combination attack, so the virus would either target the correct media player or several of em.
here is a older vulnurability with vlc and avi file https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25801
it is absolutely far less risky than downloading programs that run code, but it’s not without any risk
edit: windows programs also lets files call home. Script Command in windows media player f.ex 🤷
Like I said, no one’s wasting a 0-day on a lemming like you or me
kern.exe.mp4 LOL
and the rest are 0days that sell for millions