Security News

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 Relaunches As ExtraTorrent.cd, Proving It's Hard To Keep A Good Torrent Site Down (Forbes)
2017-05-23 13:03

ExtraTorrent Shuts Down, Second Largest Torrent Site Bites The Internet Dust (Forbes)
2017-05-20 16:48

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...

Massive 4K UHD Blu-Ray Torrent File Appears Online, Has AACS 2.0 Been Cracked? (Forbes)
2017-05-05 13:18

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...

Raum turns the most popular torrents on the web into malware spreading weapons (ZDNet)
2016-09-21 06:35

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,...

Kickass Torrents is back but dont trust any of the clones just yet (Yahoo Security)
2016-07-22 22:46

Alleged Kickass Torrents owner arrested, site taken down (Help Net Security)
2016-07-21 21:43

Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old Ukrainian that is believed to be the creator and owner of Kickass Torrents, currently the most popular and most visited illegal file-sharing website, has been arrested...