South Korean ISP Targeted Torrenting Customers With Malware

Daryl76679@lemmy.ml · 11 months ago

South Korean ISP Targeted Torrenting Customers With Malware

robalex@programming.dev · 11 months ago

Any better source on this?

papafoss@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/south-korean-telecom-company-attacks-torrent-users-with-malware-over-600000-people-report-missing-files-strange-folders-and-disabled-pcs

Here’s another article on it

lud@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

That’s crazy. Why the fuck did they think that was a good idea‽

Kairos@lemmy.today · 11 months ago

So its a service infected with malware that spread? Oof.

Scott@sh.itjust.works · 11 months ago

Are they changing the payload of the .torrent or the actual file being transmitted over BitTorrent?

Kind of hard to tell what

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml · 11 months ago

From what I could see from their site, they sound like a cloud provider that has support for folder sharing with guests. Nothing that specifies usage of torrents.

http://www.webhard.net/page/what/what.php

umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml · edit-2 11 months ago

Missing file I can understand, but how they infect the user with malware? Is it through the BitTorrent protocol, or undisclosed vulnerbility of the Grid Service? The kill chain isn’t complete.

P.S. The use of BitTorrent in Korea by service providers is somehow justified IMO given how expensive the bandwidth is which Twitch quit the market.