“What’s happening now is that users can click on one of these content sites and decide not to watch a movie, but the malware is already on their computer scraping for their Social Security number. “When you visit mainstreams sites, things are naturally happening without you clicking anything: pictures are being downloaded, ads are generating,” Galvin said. But, the main weapon for the advertisers is by sending malware that comes in the form of drive-by-download. Most of the computers are infected via malicious ads that are shown on the site which direct users towards even more malicious sites. “Consumers are defenseless, and this is really exploiting and abusing them.” Pirate sites have always stolen from content creators by making shows available for free, but now they’re stealing from people who download those shows, as well. “Movies are digital bait,” said Tom Galvin, executive director of Digital Citizens Alliance. For the advertisers, this has been a lucrative business as only this year the profile selling has made them over 70 million dollars, said the researchers. One recent example is the newly released video game Fallout 4 whose pirated copy was found embedded with malware and stole 4.88 bitcoins (nearly 2000 USD) from a gamer’s PC.īut, this is how most torrent sites make money, they sell ads to malicious advertisers who then harvest user profiles and sell them on the dark web for anywhere between 20 to 45 dollars.
Persona 3 the movie 3 falling down kickass torrent Pc#
But, most of the people online think downloading from torrent sites is absolutely free and torrent owners are doing favors to the users! Which is too good to be true and a recent study has proved it.Īccording to a new study(pdf) carried out by Digital Citizens Alliance and RiskIQ, almost one-third of the 800 torrent sites dropped malware on the users’ PC between June and August 2015 which is about 12 million Internet users per month. You may have heard the phrase “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”.