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Top PirateBay Alternatives — Torrent, Free Movie Download Websites
2018-07-07 14:48

There's no doubt that PirateBay (TPB) is one of the world's most famous and widely used torrent download website, but it has again been caught mining cryptocurrency by using its visitors' CPU...

ISPs Should Block ‘The Pirate Bay’ Torrent Site: Top European Court Rules (The Hackers News)
2017-06-14 07:39

The Pirate Bay — a widely popular file-sharing website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — is once again in trouble, this time in Europe. The European Union Court of...

ExtraTorrent, Popular Torrent Site, Permanently Shuts Down! (The Hackers News)
2017-05-17 23:54

After the shutdown of Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu, it's time for the torrent community to say goodbye to the second most popular torrent site in the world, ExtraTorrent. Yes, the popular...

Malicious torrents management tool uncovered (Help Net Security)
2016-09-21 17:43

InfoArmor researchers have uncovered Raum, a tool that is used by Eastern European organized crime group “Black Team” to deliver malware to users through malicious torrents. The group constantly...

Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents (Schneier on Security)
2016-07-26 11:42

Here's the story of how it was done. First, a fake ad on torrent listings linked the site to a Latvian bank account, an e-mail address, and a Facebook page. Using basic website-tracking services,...