The archive was tiny (only a few kilobytes), but when extracted, it expanded into hundreds of gigabytes of data.
When a user (or an unsuspecting antivirus program) tries to extract the file, it expands until it crashes the computer's memory and fills the entire hard drive. 51980.rar
While the ghost stories are fictional, the file 51980.rar likely belongs to a very real category of malicious software known as a (or Decompression Bomb). 🛠️ How it Works The archive was tiny (only a few kilobytes),