Civilization 5 Torrent Bonus: Uncivilized Malware

By Andrew Brandt Bootlegged copies of Civilization 5, the highly anticipated, just-released real time strategy game, are already popping up in file sharing services. And, as we’ve come to expect, some of the pirated copies of the game come with that little something special — malicious components. One of our Threat Research Analysts, who also [...]

Adware client tags you as its pitchman

By Andrew Brandt Over the past week, someone has been spamming the file sharing site ThePirateBay.org with comments advertising a new “product” called BittorrentBooster. According to the site’s administrators, the spammer used a large number of fraudulently registered accounts to post the messages as feedback, attached to hundreds, possibly thousands, of downloadable .torrent files, which [...]

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