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Ten Years Later, You Can Still Get Malware via the Windows Media Player DRM

  • 7 September 2016
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WMP DRM still susceptible to social engineering attacks

 
Sep 7, 2016 06:39 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu  Ten years after this technique was first observed online and used to spread a simple trojan, malware coders are still abusing it to deliver all sorts of nasties.
 
More than ten years ago, Windows users were surprised and annoyed to discover that the DRM package in the Windows Media Player could be used to deliver malware to users.
 
Every time the user tried to play a DRM-protected file in the Windows Media Player, the app would show a popup, asking the user to access an authorization URL that would verify their license, or allow them to buy a license and view the file's content.
 
                                 
http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/fitted/620x/ten-years-later-you-can-still-get-malware-via-the-windows-media-player-drm-508031-3.jpg Second popup linking to the malware 
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Well, stating the blinding obvious just because itis old does not mean that you cannot be hurt or compromised by it...and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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Well, stating the blinding obvious just because itis old does not mean that you cannot be hurt or compromised by it...and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
Exactly, some people think that because it is "ancient" that it is useless, they are crazy.

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