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

submitted 1 week ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] aaaa@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The whole exploit is based on the user clicking on a .lnk shortcut, which then executes commands found in the subtitle text file.

Which seems strangely over complicated. How does it really help to involve the subtitles file at all?

[–] arti@friendica.world 1 points 5 days ago

@aaaa if a sufficient amount of vics does exactly that it may work out (like bit error domains, or: artefact of speering vic)

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Hiding executable code in the srt file likely evades various security software.