StaryDobry ruins New Year’s Eve, delivering miner instead of presents

Introduction On December 31, cybercriminals launched a mass infection campaign, aiming to exploit reduced vigilance and increased torrent traffic during the holiday season. Our telemetry detected the attack, which lasted for a month and affected individuals and businesses by distributing the XMRi...

Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine

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...

Best Torrent Sites for 2021

By Saad Rajpoot Looking for reliable and best torrent sites during lockdown? Look no further. Today we are going to discuss the best torrent sites in 2021. Before we begin, we need to clarify that we do not support the use of pirated content. We support the use of legal content that pays royaltie...

KryptoCibule malware uses Tor & Torrent sites to steal your cryptocurrency

By Sudais Asif The KryptoCibule malware also mines cryptocurrency on targeted devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: KryptoCibule malware uses Tor & Torrent sites to steal your cryptocurrency...

A New Ransomware Targeting Apple macOS Users Through Pirated Apps

Cybersecurity researchers this week discovered a new type of ransomware targeting macOS users that spreads via pirated apps. According to several independent reports from K7 Lab malware researcher Dinesh Devadoss, Patrick Wardle, and Malwarebytes, the ransomware variant — dubbed "EvilQuest " — is...

GoBotKR Targets Pirate Torrents to Build a DDoS Botnet

A botnet dubbed GoBotKR is targeting fans of Korean TV, compromising computers via pirated copies of South Korean movies, games and TV shows available via Korean and Chinese torrent sites. Ultimately, the cybercriminals are building a network that can then be used to perform DDoS attacks of vario...

Popular Torrent Uploader 'CracksNow' Caught Spreading Ransomware

It's not at all surprising that downloading movies and software from the torrent network could infect your computer with malware, but it's more heartbreaking when a popular, trusted file uploader goes rogue. Popular software cracks/keygens uploader "CracksNow," who had trusted status from many...

Best Piratebay Alternatives and Proxy List for Downloading Torrents

Are you looking for The Pirate Bay, Piratebay proxies, or alternatives to thepiratebay.se? You've come to the right place for the latest Piratebay news and a list of the best torrent sites. The Pirate Bay is one of the world's most famous and best torrent search engines. It allows users to downlo...

Best Piratebay Alternatives and Proxy List for Downloading Torrents

Are you looking for The Pirate Bay, Piratebay proxies, or alternatives to thepiratebay.se? You've come to the right place for the latest Piratebay news and a list of the best torrent sites. The Pirate Bay is one of the world's most famous and best torrent search engines. It allows users to downlo...

Ubisoft's uPlay service hacked, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Leaked

Russian hackers have figured out a way to download free games from Ubisoft's servers, exploiting an existing vulnerability in Ubisoft's uPlay launcher. According to reports, the copies of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon that are available on torrent sites are the result of a hack of Ubisoft's uPlay servic...

Indian ISPs get court relief, Torrent Sites Unblocked

Indian ISPs get court relief, Torrent Sites Unblocked After weeks of confusion and frustration with blocked websites, the mess finally looks to be clearing. Indians are all heaving a sigh of relief because their ISPs have unblocked the access to the file-sharing, video-streaming BitTorrent sites...

Gamers Seek Beta Versions, Download Malware Instead

Tracking the increasingly common use of PC games as an infection vector, researchers at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC discovered a couple of malicious programs making the rounds on torrent and file sharing sites. Social engineers are disguising their malware by labeling it as the...

Mac OS X Trojan Goes BitCoin Mining, Steals Files

A new Trojan targeting Mac OS X users is not only after data, but Bitcoins as well. The malware is being detected by Sophos as Miner-D, but is also known as DevilRobber. According to Sophos, the Trojan is hiding inside pirated versions of the Mac OS X image editing application GraphicConverter...

uTorrent Site Compromised, Client Replaced With Scareware

Attackers on Tuesday hacked the uTorrent.com service, replacing the uTorrent software download with a rogue antivirus program that demanded payment from users in order to remove non-existent malware from their machines. The attack occurred Tuesday just after 4 a.m. Pacific time and the rogue AV...

New Trojan Targets Mac OS X Users

Researchers have found a new piece of malware that’s designed to attack the Mac OS X platform, an occurrence that’s rare enough still that each new discovery is noted separately. The new Trojan is known as the Black Hole RAT remote administration tool and is capable of giving a remote attacker...

100 BitTorrent Users Do Most Illegal Sharing

BitTorrent, the peer to peer file sharing network, has gained a reputation for enabling the masses to share and distribute files. But when it comes to sharing copyrighted content, just 100 users are responsible for most of the content. The findings, published by academic researchers in Spain,...