If you use VLC media player on your computer and haven’t updated it recently, we advise against trying to play any randomly downloaded video files. Because malicious files could give hackers full control of your computer.

According to the report by The Hacker News, VLC media player software versions prior to 3.0.7 contain two high-risk vulnerabilities, along with several medium and low severity vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. Therefore, if you are a VLC Player user, it would be in your best interest to update it urgently.