The Register has contacted India's Department of Telecommunications seeking information on the ban and will update this story if we receive a substantive response.Yep, based on the URL it looks like a CDN/hosting provider being used by VLC/VideoLAN much like what Malwarebytes themselves and many other software vendors use for example: > For those taking about Cicada malware campaign, plz understand that a very outdated is vulnerable to DLL Hijacking (patched in 2010) and the threat actor need to install outdated VLC version for that attack. The project also shared the following thread penned by ethical hacker Sunny Nehra. India binned made-in-Singapore app in latest round of China bans.Honor moving team out of India for 'obvious reasons,' says CEO.India proposes increased power to vet tech mergers.The project today rebutted that argument by stating "Blocking the main website will just push users to weirder websites, and therefore towards shady versions of VLC." One theory that emerged during recent days was that India is worried about downloads of compromised versions of VideoLAN, so blocked its website to prevent further downloads Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) August 14, 2022 DoT transferred it to which then responded on July 14 that “No information is available ” (1/4)
On June 07, 2022, we filed a Right to Information application with seeking information on the blocking of the website of VideoLANorg in India. India's Internet Freedom Foundation then revealed it had been asking questions about the ban, to no avail. Indian blocks of VideoLAN went largely unnoticed for weeks, until last weekend when Indian media reported on the matter. The project has also had security issues involving opening poisoned media files – but largely blamed them on a dependency rather than its own efforts.
As VideoLAN is open source, it's also possible to create fake versions of the software and embed malware.
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