I can't find it now, but there was a VLC CVE report about being able to execute code remotely, with a CCP threat actor using it. VLC said it was due to a fake version of VLC being distributed.
Could this all be related to that?
Could this all be related to that?
Maybe related? To my knowledge, India hasn't said anything about why it's banned.
And everybody agrees the issue was a modified version of VLC being distributed, the original report put it in a confusing way that made it sound like base VLC was susceptible.
Especially since banning the real VLC would increase the risk to Indian users by increasing the adoption of the fake VLC.
I do find it hard to believe India was on top of things enough to catch the malicious version early but stupidly thought the best solution was to block the official version. But it was possible.