Beware the old fansub group hiding malware in their releases

I downloaded a rare 90s OVA from 'AnimeRelics' last week and my antivirus caught a keylogger embedded in the video file. Has anyone else here run into fake fansub groups slipping dangerous stuff into their encodes?

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evan_dixon673mo ago

Old fansub groups were the worst about this stuff. Back in the early 2000s I downloaded a whole series from a group called 'DigitalDreams' and it bricked my PC. Got a weird popup saying my files were encrypted and they wanted money. Lost everything. Now I only download from the big private trackers with solid rep. Even then I run everything through a sandbox first. The keylogger thing is scary though, never seen it hidden in a video file before. That's next level sneaky.

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robin4893mo ago

Wait, they actually managed to hide a keylogger inside a video file? That's wild, I didn't even know that was possible.

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