The source code for Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems was published as a torrent file on bulletin board website 4chan. The source code for Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems was published as a torrent file on the bulletin board website 4chan. This is the first time that […]
Crooks are exploiting the popularity of the Star Wars saga to monetize their efforts, experts warn of online streaming sites delivering malware. Cybercriminals leverage popular movies like Star Wars to lure users into downloading malware to watch exclusive scenes or the full movie. Experts at Kaspersky have analyzed some threats that exploit the new Star Wars movie […]
Experts at Z-Lab Yoroi/Cybaze have conducted an interesting analysis on the risks for users downloading films, games, and software through Torrent. Digital media sharing is one of the most relevant phenomena since the advent of the internet. During the 80’s and 90’s, with the rapid growth the Internet, people around the world started sharing digital […]
Crooks are abusing the torrent website The Pirate Bay to distribute the PirateMatryoshka malware that fuels the victim’s PC with unwanted software. Crooks abusing torrent services to distribute malware is not a novelty, Torrent users are often exposed to serious threats such if the one recently spotted by Kaspersky Lab and dubbed by the expert […]
Experts observed a new threat targeting WordPress install, the Sathurbot botnet attempts to bruteforce WordPress accounts. Once compromised a WordPress website, the Sathurbot botnet uses it to spread the malware. The Sathurbot leverages torrents as a delivery mechanism, once a website is compromised it is used to host fake movie and software torrents. When victims search for […]
Starting from June 1st search engine companies will block queries to links to pirated content, including films, TV shows, and copyright-protected content. It will be even more difficult to search for torrents of ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, The Pirate Bay and equivalent services. In the past copyright holders accused the search engine companies of doing too little to ban infringing […]
The μTorrent team announced its community μTorrent forum has been hacked. Hundreds of thousand records belonging its users have been exposed. Are you a Torrent user? Are you one of the users of the popular μTorrent Forum? You might be in trouble because the μTorrent Forum was hacked. μTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients, […]
Internet users that have recently installed or updated the popular BitTorrent client μTorrent 3.4.2 Build 28913 may have installed a Bitcoin miner. Internet users that have recently installed or updated the popular BitTorrent client μTorrent 3.4.2 Build 28913 had a nasty surprise, the application, in fact, installed a Bitcoin miner as explained in this advisory. “Users […]