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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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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
- 04:25 PM
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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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qBittorrent fixes flaw exposing users to MitM attacks for 14 years
qBittorrent has addressed a remote code execution flaw caused by the failure to validate SSL/TLS certificates in the application's DownloadManager, a component that manages downloads throughout the app.
- October 31, 2024
- 11:11 AM
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Pirated Microsoft Office delivers malware cocktail on systems
Cybercriminals are distributing a malware cocktail through cracked versions of Microsoft Office promoted on torrent sites.
- May 30, 2024
- 04:53 PM
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Clop ransomware now uses torrents to leak data and evade takedowns
The Clop ransomware gang has once again altered extortion tactics and is now using torrents to leak data stolen in MOVEit attacks.
- August 05, 2023
- 11:16 AM
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Pirated Windows 10 ISOs install clipper malware via EFI partitions
Hackers are distributing Windows 10 using torrents that hide cryptocurrency hijackers in the EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) partition to evade detection.
- June 13, 2023
- 05:16 PM
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Movie torrents hijacked to send tips on bypassing Russian censorship
A team of Ukrainian cyber-activists has thought of a simple yet potentially effective way to spread uncensored information in Russia: bundling torrents with text and video files pretending to include installation instructions.
- August 01, 2022
- 07:12 PM
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VPN provider bans BitTorrent after getting sued by film studios
"No logs" VPN provider TorGuard has reached a legal settlement with over two dozen movie studios that sued the company for encouraging piracy and copyright infringement. In the settlement, TorGuard has agreed to block BitTorrent traffic for its users.
- March 12, 2022
- 11:01 AM
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GitHub shuts down Popcorn Time repositories due to MPA DMCA notice
GitHub has shut down two repositories belonging to the video streaming BitTorrent client Popcorn Time after receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement notice from the Motion Picture Association.
- May 05, 2020
- 10:26 AM
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Microsoft warns of malware surprise pushed via pirated movies
Microsoft warns that malicious actors are taking advantage of the boost in traffic seen by movie piracy sites to infect victims with malware delivered via fake movie torrents.
- April 28, 2020
- 05:00 PM
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Backdoored Torrents Infect Movie, TV Fans with GoBot2 Malware
TV show and movie fans are being targeted by a malicious campaign that distributes a GoBot2 backdoor variant via files downloaded from several South Korean and Chinese torrent sites.
- July 08, 2019
- 10:51 AM
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Torrent Malware Goes Down as Pirated Streaming Usage Increases
Both the number of users who downloaded malware infected pirated copies of TV show episodes to their computers and the number of such attacks dropped down during 2018 by 33% and 22% respectively as reported by Kaspersky Lab.
- April 01, 2019
- 12:19 PM
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400K Malware Outbreak Caused by Backdoored Russian Torrenting Client
A massive malware outbreak that attempted to infect over 400,000 users during a 12-hour period was caused by a backdoored Russian-based BitTorrent client named MediaGet.
- March 14, 2018
- 12:15 PM
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uTorrent Client Affected by Some Pretty Severe Security Flaws
A Google security researcher has found multiple security flaws affecting the uTorrent web and desktop client that allow an attacker to infect a victim with malware or collect data on the users' past downloads.
- February 21, 2018
- 07:17 AM
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PSA: The Pirate Bay Is Running an In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miner With No Opt-Out
The Pirate Bay, the Internet's largest torrent portal, is back at running a cryptocurrency miner after it previously ran a short test in mid-September.
- October 11, 2017
- 05:56 PM
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YouTube-MP3.Org Will Shut Down Following RIAA Lawsuit
YouTube-MP3.org — the largest YouTube ripping service on the Internet — has agreed to shut down permanently as part of a settlement it reached with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in a lawsuit the organization filed last year.
- September 04, 2017
- 03:57 PM
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Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Shuts Down out of the Blue
Hours ago, the ExtraTorrent portal announced it has shut down for good via a short message plastered on its homepage.
- May 17, 2017
- 05:45 PM
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uTorrent Will Move to the Web Browser
The next major version of the uTorrent client will work in a user's browser, said Bram Cohen, the creator of the BitTorrent protocol. Cohen revealed his plans in an episode of the Steal This Show podcast over the weekend.
- April 24, 2017
- 04:10 AM
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Sathurbot Malware Spreads via Torrent Files, Attacks WordPress Sites
Security researchers from ESET have discovered a new malware called Sathurbot that relies on malicious torrent files to spread to new victims and carries out coordinated brute-force attacks on WordPress sites.
- April 07, 2017
- 05:27 AM
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Mininova Torrent Portal Will Be Shutting Down on April 4th, 2017
Mininova, a veteran of the torrenting scene, announced today it was shutting down via a message on its homepage, closing its doors after 13 years of existence.
- February 26, 2017
- 04:40 PM
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