I miss the ancient days when the internet was still underground and cool and you had to learn at least a little bit even to even know how to get there or what to do when you arrived. All this new and glitzy mass-market pickpocketry is just so depressingly mainstream. I feel so aged.
One of the best attack vectors I heard was a completely uninfected video file, which required a rare codec, and when you installed said codec... trojan! You've got to credit the malware writers for that bit of ingenuity.
Errrr..... That one is trivial (skiddie-capable) and has been around for years.
A "codec" doesn't need to be a codec, it can just be any piece of dodgy COM that implements a trivial COM interface, does its nefarious work and then hands off to a real codec that was probably there all along. Any monkey can write one, even in VB. The give-away is usually a piece of video that insists on re-downloading the same magic new codec every time.
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A "codec" doesn't need to be a codec, it can just be any piece of dodgy COM that implements a trivial COM interface, does its nefarious work and then hands off to a real codec that was probably there all along. Any monkey can write one, even in VB. The give-away is usually a piece of video that insists on re-downloading the same magic new codec every time.
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