Tag: Piracy
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Suprbay.org, The Pirate Bay Web Forum Down amid Cyberattack
Suprbay.org serves as a switch for The Pirate Bay users in case The Pirate Bay domain goes offline. The official web forum of The Pirate …
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Risky online behaviour ‘almost normalised’ among young people, says study
Risky and criminal online behaviour is in danger of becoming normalised among a generation of young people across Europe, according to …
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Police Shutter 13,000 Sites in Piracy Crackdown
A wide-ranging effort to disrupt counterfeiting and online piracy across the EU resulted in the closure of 12,526 websites hosting illegal …
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Russian Duo Indicted Over E-Book Piracy
A Russian couple have been indicted for allegedly running one of the world’s biggest e-book piracy websites. Anton Napolsky, 33, and …
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An ISP Settled Piracy Lawsuits. Could Users Take the Hit?
Charter Communications has agreed to settle piracy lawsuits filed by the major record labels, which accused the cable Internet provider of …
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Team Xecuter hacker gets 40 months in prison for Nintendo Switch hacks
A member of Team Xecutre, a notorious group of console hackers, has been sentenced to forty months in prison by a US District Court for the …
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Piracy is alive and well, demand reaching 3.7 billion unlicensed streams and downloads
Akamai released a research detailing the persistence of online piracy. The evolving piracy landscape, according to the …
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Brit Admits Role in International Movie Piracy Ring
A British man has admitted being a member of an international video piracy ring that illegally distributed “nearly every movie released …
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Malware droppers for hire targeting users on fake pirated software sites
The report’s authors Sean Gallagher and Yusuf Polat noted that paid download and droppers services, although they have been operating for …
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Fake pirated software hides dropper-as-a-service
Researchers at SophosLabs have uncovered malware being distributed by a network of websites acting as a ‘dropper as a service’, serving up …
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Poker player jailed for illegal video streaming, downloading websites
Infamous Poker player Talon White has received 12 months of a prison sentence after being involved in the illegal streaming of thousands of …
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Puzzling New Malware Blocks Access to Piracy Sites
Researchers have admitted they’re baffled by a new piece of malware primarily designed to prevent victims from visiting software piracy …
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