Collaborate Disseminate
Twenty years ago, in a world dominated by dial-up connections and a fledgling World Wide Web, a group of New Zealand friends embarked on a journey. Their mission? To bring …read more Continue reading The Oldest Living Torrent is 20 Years Old
By Deeba Ahmed
The SuprBay forum has been inaccessible for a few days.
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Mandiant is reporting on a trojaned Windows installer that targets Ukrainian users. The installer was left on various torrent sites, presumably ensnaring people downloading pirated copies of the operating system:
Mandiant uncovered a socially engineered supply chain operation focused on Ukrainian government entities that leveraged trojanized ISO files masquerading as legitimate Windows 10 Operating System installers. The trojanized ISOs were hosted on Ukrainian- and Russian-language torrent file sharing sites. Upon installation of the compromised software, the malware gathers information on the compromised system and exfiltrates it. At a subset of victims, additional tools are deployed to enable further intelligence gathering. In some instances, we discovered additional payloads that were likely deployed following initial reconnaissance including the STOWAWAY, BEACON, and SPAREPART backdoors…
Akamai released a research detailing the persistence of online piracy. The evolving piracy landscape, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center, costs the U.S. economy alone $29.2 billion in lost revenue each yea… Continue reading Piracy is alive and well, demand reaching 3.7 billion unlicensed streams and downloads
By Waqas
If you download pirated content from torrent platforms, you can be a victim of this Mac malware. There is a new variant of cryptomining malware that is specifically targeting Apple’s Mac devices and those users who prefer downloading pir… Continue reading Hackers using pirated software to spread new cryptomining Mac malware
Torrent sites are banning CracksNow, a popular source of torrent uploads, after discovering that the uploader of cracks and keygens was distributing ransomware. CracksNow was labeled as “trusted” before a number of users started noticing ba… Continue reading Popular Torrents Uploader Caught Sharing ‘GandCrab’ Ransomware
After publishers sued Sci-Hub, Russian ISPs are now preventing users from accessing the valuable scientific data repository and paywall killer. Continue reading ‘The Pirate Bay of Science’ Continues to Get Attacked Around the World
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: ban on killer robots urged; Apple’s hidden job advert; torrent sites blocked Down Under
As you may know in July KickassTorrents (KAT) websites was shut down by US authorities and its owner Artem Vaulin was arrested in Poland. Since then, several KAT mirrors popped up and then disappeared but there was no sign of the original domain or the team. Now, good news is that KickassTorrents is back with […]
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By Agan UzunovicCloudFlare was sued for providing CDN services to websites containingThis is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CloudFlare tells court it does not assist pirate sites: Report Continue reading CloudFlare tells court it does not assist pirate sites: Report