“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. 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”.
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