The Pirate Bay is down – Here are its best alternatives

By Waqas You are not alone, The Pirate Bay is down for This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay is down - Here are its best alternatives...

The Pirate Bay suffers 40% traffic drop after domain ban in Netherlands

By Waqas The Pirate Bay is in hot water once again - This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay suffers 40% traffic drop after domain ban in Netherlands...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again

By Waqas In September 2017, we reported that The Pirate Bay TPB was running This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again...

After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins

By Uzair Amir It has only been a week since The Pirate Bay This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins...

Threatpost News Wrap, September 22, 2017

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week and look back at the Equifax saga so far. They also discuss a Google HTTPS warnings paper, cryptocurrency mining at the Pirate Bay, and bringing machine learning to passwords. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember222017.mp3 Show notes: Equifa...

The Pirate Bay Caught Running Browser-Based Cryptocurrency Miner

The world's popular torrent download website, The Pirate Bay, has again been in a new controversy—this time over secretly planting an in-browser cryptocurrency miner on its website that utilizes its visitors' CPU processing power in order to mine digital currencies. The Pirate Bay is the most...

Pirate Bay Spotted Hosting Monero Cryptocurrency Miner

A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on the world’s largest torrenting site for a day over the weekend, raising the ire of users unaware the tool was there, let alone leveraging their machine’s computing power. Users noticed the miner Friday night on The Pirate Bay, a site that acts as a treasure trov...

The Pirate Bay Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script

By Waqas In 2015, it was reported that uTorrent was secretly installing This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script...

Guilty in Absence: Pirate Bay Founders to pay €405,000 to Record Labels

By Uzair Amir The file sharing giant, The Pirate Bay, is in the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Guilty in Absence: Pirate Bay Founders to pay €405,000 to Record Labels...

The Pirate Bay Founders Ordered to Pay Music Labels $477,800 in Compensation

Two of the three co-founders of The Pirate Bay—Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg—have been ordered by a Finnish court to pay record labels $477,800 in compensation for copyright infringement on the site. Last year in a similar case, Helsinki District Court in Finland ordered Peter Sunde, t...

ISPs Should Block ‘The Pirate Bay’ Torrent Site: Top European Court Rules

The Pirate Bay — a widely popular file-sharing website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — is once again in trouble, this time in Europe. The European Union Court of Justice ECJ ruled today that Dutch ISPs can block access to The Pirate Bay, as the Swedish file-hosti...

pirate-bay.tk XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.pirate-bay.tk/?load=/policy"--!"KNOXSS Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 377218 VIP website status:| No Check pirate-bay.tk SSL connection:|...

thepiratebay.cr XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://thepiratebay.cr/search/%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=prompt/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E/0/7/0 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 8147 VIP website status:| Yes...

Pirate Kings - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Exported ContentProvider vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Pirate Kings published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Torrentz.eu Shuts Down Forever! End of Biggest Torrent Search Engine

Over two weeks after the shutdown of Kickass Torrents and arrest of its admin in Poland, the world's biggest BitTorrent meta-search engine Torrentz.eu has apparently shut down its operation. The surprise shutdown of Torrentz marks the end of an era. Torrentz.eu was a free, fast and powerful...

Kickass Torrents — Domain Names Seized! Owner Arrested! Website Goes Down!

The federal authorities have finally arrested the alleged mastermind behind the world's largest and most notorious BitTorrent distribution site Kickass Torrents KAT, the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday. After The Pirate Bay had suffered copyright infringement hardship, Kickass Torren...

The Pirate Bay Founder Ordered to Pay $395,000 Fine in Lawsuit he didn't even know about

One of the founders of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been ordered to pay a fine worth nearly US$400,000 to several major record labels after their content was shared illegally via the platform. The penalty has been imposed on The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde by a court in...

The Pirate Bay loses its Main Domain Name in Court Battle

The Pirate Bay has fought many legal battles since its launch in 2003 to keep the website operational for the last 13 years. However, this time The Pirate Bay is suffering a major blow after the Swedish Court ruled Thursday that it will take away the domain names 'ThePirateBay.se' and...

the-pirate-bay.pw XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://the-pirate-bay.pw/ads/middle/index.php?r=3=bar=Spam404=%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=prompt%28/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 27.07.2017 Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 08:41 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly...