chicken comments on Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles

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

submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So wait, literally all it took was putting command line commands on their own line in a subtitles file? Am I interpreting this right

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[–] ticoombs@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

No/yes. in a text file, there are commands to run, and then made a script to run those commands. They then make the script look like a "double click this to get it to work". Nothing new

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago

oh, so it wasn't a video player having an absurd exploit then

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