Watch out for photos containing malware
Cybercriminals use images in a number of ways to infect your computer. In most cases, the photo itself is harmless; it’s just a trick to get you to do something stupid. But sometimes, a .jpg file itself will contain malicious code.
Let’s look at a few ways in which an image can contain some real bad news.
As you may have noticed, a lot of spam exists for the specific purpose of tricking you into visiting a particular website–often one that intends to download malware. Images can play a big part of that. You probably already know not to click a link in a suspicious email, but photos can be embedded in emails as they are in webpages—and do their dirty work when you open the mail.
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