![]() ![]() The hacking has been traced to threat actor Cicada, also known as menuPass, Stone Panda, Potassium, APT10 and Red Apollo, that has been active for over 15 years. The cyberattack by Cicada is said to be spread across three continents and is aimed at espionage and has targeted numerous groups involved in political, legal, and religious activities, as well as non-government organisations (NGOs). There’s no official government report yet that talks about the involvement of the Chinese government and these claims are made by cybersecurity experts. Note that the government hasn’t talked about this publicly yet but if reports are to be believed, in April 2022, cybersecurity experts claimed that a hacker group based out of China named as Cicada used VLC Media Player to deliver malware in systems as part of a cyberattack campaign backed by the Chinese government. It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through Wi-Fi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web. As the VLC apps continued to work as usual in India and only access to the website was restricted, the subtle ‘ban’ went unnoticed. VLC media player for iOS and iPadOS can play all your movies and shows in most formats directly without conversion. While all major ISPs like Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone-idea and others are not allowing users in India to access the VLC website, you can still open the website on your phone or laptop using any VPN service.According to a report by MediaNama, the VLC Media Player was apparently banned around five months ago without any notice either from the government or the VideoLan organisation. ![]() There’s no official information from the government yet as to why access to the VLC website is restricted in India.
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