Wav Files Can Be Used To Hide Malware And Cryptocurrency Miners
The infectious WAV files appear innocuous until you play it. Security researchers discovered that the these either produced a normal music piece with no quality issues, or just generated white noise. When you do play them, though, the embedded code installs a Monero miner in some instances, or opens up a PC to remote attacks in others. Being hidden in audio files make the malicious code very difficult to detect....