Tracking Security Innovation – Business Security Weekly #90

Tron Foundation acquired BitTorrent, PayPal acquired Simility, Panaseer raised $10M Series A, and Agari raised $40M Series E. Tracking Security Innovation Tron Foundation acquired BitTorrent for $140M “BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer networking platform t… Continue reading Tracking Security Innovation – Business Security Weekly #90

TRON Cryptocurrency Founder Buys BitTorrent, µTorrent for $140 Million

BitTorrent, the company which owns the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, has quietly been sold for $140 million in cash to Justin Sun, the founder of blockchain-focused startup TRON.

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Poisoned BitTorrent client kickstarted malware outbreak that tried to infect 400,000 PCs

Microsoft has detailed how it intercepted a massive malware distribution campaign on March 6th which attempted to infect over 400,000 Windows PCs with cryptomining software in a single 12 hour period.
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Trojanized BitTorrent Software Update Hijacked 400,000 PCs Last Week

A massive malware outbreak that last week infected nearly half a million computers with cryptocurrency mining malware in just a few hours was caused by a backdoored version of popular BitTorrent client called MediaGet.

Dubbed Dofoil (also known as Smo… Continue reading Trojanized BitTorrent Software Update Hijacked 400,000 PCs Last Week

Beware; rTorrent Client Exploited to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency

By Waqas
rTorrent Client Exploited to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency Thanks to XML-RPC
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