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Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles
A fake torrent for Leonardo DiCaprio's 'One Battle After Another' hides malicious PowerShell malware loaders inside subtitle files that ultimately infect devices with the Agent Tesla RAT malware.
- December 12, 2025
- 12:12 PM
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MKVCinemas streaming piracy service with 142M visits shuts down
An anti-piracy coalition has dismantled one of India's most popular streaming piracy services, which has provided free access to movies and TV shows to millions over the past two years.
- December 12, 2025
- 02:14 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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TV streaming piracy service with 26M yearly visits shut down
Photocall, a TV piracy streaming platform with over 26 million users annually, has ceased operations following a joint investigation by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and DAZN.
- November 20, 2025
- 08:31 AM
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting fixes bug exposing restricted media
A vulnerability in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting's website allowed downloading of protected and private media for years, with the flaw quietly patched this month.
- September 22, 2025
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Man gets over 4 years in prison for selling unreleased movies
A Tennessee court has sentenced a Memphis man who worked for a DVD and Blu-ray manufacturing and distribution company to 57 months in prison for stealing and selling digital copies of unreleased movies.
- September 12, 2025
- 07:36 AM
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Sports streaming piracy service with 123M yearly visits shut down
Calcio, a large piracy sports streaming platform with more than 120 million visits in the past year, was shut down following a collaborative effort by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and DAZN.
- September 08, 2025
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Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and Egyptian authorities have shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal live sports streaming network, and arrested two people allegedly associated with the operation.
- September 03, 2025
- 12:45 PM
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Massive IPTV piracy service with 28,000 channels taken offline
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced the shutdown of Rare Breed TV, a major illegal IPTV service provider, after reaching a financial settlement with its operators.
- August 07, 2025
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Operator of Jetflicks illegal streaming service gets 7 years in prison
The ringleader of the Jetflicks illegal paid streaming operation, a massive service with tens of thousands of subscribers, was sentenced to seven years in prison.
- July 23, 2025
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New Arcane infostealer infects YouTube, Discord users via game cheats
A newly discovered information-stealing malware called Arcane is stealing extensive user data, including VPN account credentials, gaming clients, messaging apps, and information stored in web browsers.
- March 19, 2025
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PyPi package with 100K installs pirated music from Deezer for years
A malicious PyPi package named 'automslc' has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the Python Package Index since 2019, abusing hard-coded credentials to pirate music from the Deezer streaming service.
- February 26, 2025
- 11:59 AM
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Cracked Garry’s Mod, BeamNG.drive games infect gamers with miners
A large-scale malware campaign dubbed "StaryDobry" has been targeting gamers worldwide with trojanized versions of cracked games such as Garry's Mod, BeamNG.drive, and Dyson Sphere Program.
- February 18, 2025
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Massive live sports piracy ring with 812 million yearly visits taken offline
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has taken down one of the world's largest live sports streaming piracy rings, with over 821 million visits last year.
- December 20, 2024
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Police bust pirate streaming service making €250 million per month
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million ($263M) per month.
- November 27, 2024
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Former Avaya employee gets 4 years for $88M license piracy scheme
Three individuals who orchestrated a massive-scale pirate operation involving the sale of Avaya business telephone system software licenses worth over $88,000,000 have received imprisonment sentences.
- July 29, 2024
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Five men convicted for operating illegal streaming site Jetflicks
A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted five men for their involvement in the operation of Jetflicks, one of the largest and most popular illegal streaming services in the United States.
- June 21, 2024
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Police dismantle pirated TV streaming network that made $5.7 million
Spanish police have dismantled a network of illegal media content distribution that, since the start of its operations in 2015, has made over $5,700,000.
- June 02, 2024
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Police seize record 50,000 Bitcoin from now-defunct piracy site
The police in Saxony, eastern Germany, have seized 50,000 Bitcoin from the former operator of the pirate site movie2k.to through a voluntary deposit to a state-controlled wallet.
- January 31, 2024
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Cracked macOS apps drain wallets using scripts fetched from DNS records
Hackers are using a stealthy method to deliver to macOS users information-stealing malware through DNS records that hide malicious scripts.
- January 22, 2024
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Pirate IPTV network in Austria dismantled and $1.74 million seized
The Austrian police have arrested 20 people across the country linked to an illegal IPTV network that, between 2016 and 2023, decrypted copyright-protected broadcasts and redistributed them to thousands of customers.
- October 29, 2023
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