A new Magniber ransomware campaign is here that is infecting potential victims using fake Windows updates. Upon successful infection, the threat actors are asking for payment of around $2,600 in BTC.
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In a hilarious twist of irony, thepiratebay.se has been caught out "testing" a script that uses the CPU cycles of its visitors to mine cryptocurrecy. Apparently, this is going to replace ads though.
Following an order from the Federal Court in Australia, ISPs must block dozens of warez related domains and proxies by the end of the year. Telstra implemented the weakest of these blocks.
New ransomware has recently been seen searching victims' computers for illegally downloaded content in addition to social media accounts before threatening them with a bogus penalty notice.
Visitors of the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will now be greeted with a warning message, stating that the site contains harmful and unwanted software.
Internet Service Providers in India have been blocking torrents/warez websites as part of a government order. Those who are caught could be fined, as well as jailed for three years.
The original 'official' domain to one of the most notorious and highly publicized warez sites, The Pirate Bay, has been suspended by EuroDNS -- the registrar for the domain.
Following the release of Office 2016 yesterday, pirates have obtained all editions and languages of the productivity suite and posted them online for all to download.
A “high-profile” group of BitTorrent releasers published a document on the new multimedia standards to use for TV shows in standard definition. Quality and control will improve, they promise.
The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), an organization directly connected to the Iranian Government, is charged with evaluating and advising policy makers on science and technology issues. They are also host to...
After pleading guilty in a US federal court earlier this year, 44-year-old Hew Griffiths, the head of underground piracy group "DrinkOrDie", was sentenced to 51 months in jail last week on one count of conspiracy...
Stop, hold the presses! The RIAA is not the evil spying corporation that we've been reading about the past year. No contrary to popular belief it is not the RIAA who...
If you are seriously considering downloading Half-Life 2 through illegal means, do expect quite a fight from Valve Software. The following is a response from Gabe Newell when being addressed on the topic of pirated...
Despite the wording of a small announcement claiming that it's all about performance, NTL seems to have the warez community in its crosshairs. Doubtless some users will be up in arms but NTL has decided...
Found this over on GeekNews, pointing to a story over on New Order, regarding some additional information in relation to the FBI's ongoing warez raids. The FBI has, in the past week, been...
