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How to serve malware by exploiting Blu-ray disc attacks

A British hacker has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks that could be run to infect machines. Expert Stephen Tomkinson from NCC Group has discovered a couple of vulnerabilities in the software used to play Blu-ray discs. The exploitation of the flaw could be used to implant a malware in the machine using the vulnerable devices. The attacks are similar to those used by the Equation Group APT to compromise the machine of some participants of a scientific conference held in Houston, Texas, and some zero-day exploits including a high sophisticated backdoor codenamed Doublefantasy.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/34336/hacking/blu-ray-hack-malware.html

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