• Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    Technically speaking it is hidden in a SRT subtitle file, but it’s not the like you can execute the SRT file, since it’s just text.

    If you are downloading pirates movies, it makes sense to not click on on random stuff in the torrent/download that’s clearly not a media file.

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      4 months ago

      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?

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        4 months ago

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