Kieran Kunhya
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Podcast Appearances
And so, well, if you're in Germany, you can go to a website that is a fake version of VLC with a custom installer and
And it's very popular in Germany because their website is in German.
And Google mentioned that before Videoland.
And the weirdest thing is that it doesn't do anything on your machine for three weeks.
because that's how they do the detection.
And after three weeks, there is a small program that is a service that's installed at the same time that wakes up after three weeks and starts downloading spyware and adware.
And Google knows about it.
They've decided not to do anything.
The guys use dark SEO in Germany to do that at some point.
And this is very damaging, right?
Because one of the things that they are downloading is actually something that is replacing your ads inside your machine, right?
There is a security version of VLC, right?
You received an email saying, hey, there is a security version update on VLC.
Think about updating right now because it can hack your computer.
You come, it's a website that looks good.
decent, and you download it, it's a new version of VLC.
Great.
You don't know.
A month later, you're hacked.
You have no idea.