{"id":73034,"date":"2008-07-21T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=73034"},"modified":"2008-07-21T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:26:41","slug":"music-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/music-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Music malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A malware that infects multimedia files has been recently discovered. The malware modify the media file .WMA (Windows Media Audio) such that they download a fake codec when played. When a user tries to play an infected file, a popup message is displayed, asking the user to download a certain codec in order to play the file. The downloaded codec is of course, nothing else but a malware.<\/p>\n<p>The malware has capablities to convert other formats like MP2, MP3 to .WMA and then infect.<\/p>\n<p>People normally keep thousands of multimedia files on their systems, especially MP3s. If each file is infected by the malware then shared through a P2P network, then the user unknowingly turns into a malware host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malware that infects multimedia files has been recently discovered. The malware modify the media file .WMA (Windows Media Audio) such that they download a fake codec when played. When a user tries to play an infected file, a popup message is displayed, asking the user to download a certain codec in order to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}