VideoLan most popular Media Player for Mobile or Desktop, VLC Media Player Banned in India – VLC Media Player has been blocked by Indian Government on the suspicion of malicious code injection by China-backed hacking group Cicada, who were using it for cyber attacks. This was discovered by the security experts a few months back that Cicada was using VLC Media Player to deploy a malicious malware loader as part of a long-running cyber attack campaign. VLC Media Player is not backed by a Chinese company. It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.
VLC was the one of the most popular Media Player software and streaming media server, developed by VideoLAN project. It is very much popular worldwide. However, if you have the software installed on your device, it should still be working. But no new download through their website.
The website has been blocked as per order Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000.
This is seemingly the case for users who have the software installed on their device. It is said that VLC Media Player is blocked on all major ISPs including ACTFibernet, Jio, Vodafone-idea and others.
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In recent times, the Indian government has blocked hundreds of Chinese apps, including PUBG Mobile, TikTok, Camscanner etc. In fact, the PUBG Mobile Indian version dubbed BGMI has also been blocked in India and removed from the Google Play store and Apple App store. The reason behind blocking these apps is that the government feared these platforms were sending user data to China.
