Google Sues Operators of a 10 Million Device Android Set-Top Box Botnet A Google lawsuit filed in a New York court has been partly unsealed, revealing details of what is believed to be the largest botnet of its type in history. Consisting of 10 million compromised Android devices, mostly cheap Chinese set-top boxes popular with users of free and pirate streaming services, the Badbox 2.0 botnet turns user devices into nodes in a massive residential proxy network. Google says the botnet is used for ad fraud, malware distribution, and other digital crimes. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
TorrentFreak - News
TorrentFreak is a publication dedicated to bringing the latest news about copyright, privacy, and everything related to filesharing.
Google Sues Operators of a 10 Million Device Android Set-Top Box Botnet * TorrentFreak
A botnet of 10 million compromised Android set-top boxes, popular with users of free streaming services, is the target in a Google lawsuit.
Lawsuits Continue to Put U.S. BitTorrent Pirates in a Financial Hurt Locker Today, online piracy is largely driven by unauthorized streaming sites and services. When it comes to lawsuits, however, BitTorrent users are the prime target, as they are easy to track. In recent years, one adult entertainment company has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of all cases filed in thhe U.S. against individual pirates. While these rarely make the news, they can have consequences, court records show. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
TorrentFreak - News
TorrentFreak is a publication dedicated to bringing the latest news about copyright, privacy, and everything related to filesharing.
Lawsuits Continue to Put U.S. BitTorrent Pirates in a Financial Hurt Locker * TorrentFreak
Strike 3 is aggressively suing U.S. BitTorrent users, in a system where settlements are often cheaper than proving innocence.
Former #1 Movie Piracy Site โ€œStrongly Linkedโ€ to Global Infostealer Activity Earlier this year, Microsoft published a report on an infostealer malware campaign identified as stemming from pirate streaming sites. With one million user devices infected, the potential for damage is clearly enormous but the threat isn't new. Data sourced from specialist breach databases reveals that Fmovies, the world's most popular pirate streaming site before its closure in 2024, was "strongly linked" to Infostealer activity targeting users worldwide. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
TorrentFreak - News
TorrentFreak is a publication dedicated to bringing the latest news about copyright, privacy, and everything related to filesharing.
Former #1 Movie Piracy Site "Strongly Linked" to Global Infostealer Activity * TorrentFreak
Fmovies, previously the world's most popular pirate streaming site, was "strongly linked" to Infostealer activity targeting users worldwide.