People me saying this but what malware is in mkv files? I don’t understand why anyone takes the risk of pirating software, that’s obviously all infected.
And TPB gets those MKVs seemingly faster than any other site I’ve seen and with a ui that’s easier to use due to not being modern garbage
The chances of an mkv or mp4 containing malware are not zero, but might as well be, imo. You’re much more likely to encounter moviefilename.mkv.exe or moviefilename.zip which contains an executable of some kind. Basically traps to take advantage of dumbasses. If you even sort of know what you’re doing using tpb for purely media is okay. Hypothetically, of course.
If TPB tells you to download a malicious MKV file, it might be specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in your video player. For instance, VLC had a vulnerability in 2019: https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1901.html
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People me saying this but what malware is in mkv files? I don’t understand why anyone takes the risk of pirating software, that’s obviously all infected.
And TPB gets those MKVs seemingly faster than any other site I’ve seen and with a ui that’s easier to use due to not being modern garbage
The chances of an mkv or mp4 containing malware are not zero, but might as well be, imo. You’re much more likely to encounter moviefilename.mkv.exe or moviefilename.zip which contains an executable of some kind. Basically traps to take advantage of dumbasses. If you even sort of know what you’re doing using tpb for purely media is okay. Hypothetically, of course.
FWIW common libraries like ffmpeg and what not can contain bugs which video files could potentially abuse and exploit.
Is that a common risk? Probably not. But image libraries have been known to have such exploits.
Isnt there a popular PS2 hack method which is basically using a broken video?
The fun thing is that it’s basically unquantifiable how large the risk is. We only know about vulnerabilities after we find them!
You want dat zero day shizzle, homie
If TPB tells you to download a malicious MKV file, it might be specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in your video player. For instance, VLC had a vulnerability in 2019: https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1901.html