VLC Player Enables Hackers To Stream Malicious Video To Your PC - Risk to 200 Million Computers
Serious flaws in VLC Media Player allow attackers to load specially crafted video files into a vulnerable system and execute arbitrary code. It's time for hackers to hack your PC using malformed video files. The two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to execute untrusted video files on systems running vulnerable VLC media player have been fixed by VideoLAN in a security update for VLC Media Player. The VideoLAN project created the open source, cross-platform VLC media player, which supports streaming media. More than 200 million people have downloaded VLC Player worldwide, and it is installed on hundreds of millions of computers running Windows, iOS, Android, and Mac. Zhangyang from Hackerone and Symeon Paraschoudis from pentest partners found and reported two vulnerabilities. According to Symantec's cybersecurity specialists, the Windows operating system is being used by the Chinese hacking group Cicada (also known as Stone Panda or APT10) to spread malware that is used to s...