Weather Infected Ads On KickassTorrents

On the very popular torrent KickassTorrents again infected ads have appeared that tried to infect visitors with malware. The ads were spotted by the Safe Browsing service provided by Google, which then in users of Chrome and Firefox website blocked.

What kind of vulnerability, there was used to spread malware and to not know what is exactly the malware lets Google. Across TorrentFreak explains the team Kickass Torrents that the responsible advertiser has been removed. At the time of writing, the Web site, however, is still blocked. In July KickassTorrents was already by Google blocked. The torrent is according to Alexa on the 75th spot of most visited websites in the world.

Research: Torrent Proxies Full Scripts That Inject Malware

In some countries, Internet service providers block access to torrent sites, allowing users to use so-called proxy sites to visit blocked websites anyway. However, this is not without risk, says researcher Gabor Szathmári . The researcher analyzed some 6,000 websites that mirror for popular torrent sites are being blocked in Britain, such as The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents.

The mirrors direct the traffic of visitors to the blocked torrent site. Of the 6,000 mirrors appeared to add 99.7% additional JavaScript to website traffic. In the vast majority of mirrors was about four or five additional scripts. A large part of these scripts contained malware or let users commit click fraud. Thus, for instance so-called updates for Adobe Flash Player and other video codecs offered. Only 0.3% of the proxies did absolutely nothing to do with the user's web traffic and left it intact.

"Several Internet providers block for copyright purposes led to the access popular torrent sites. Internet censorship has thousands of mirrors that provide access to the censored file sharing sites," said Szathmári. The researcher suggests that some of these mirrors are managed by well-meaning citizens, but that most money trying to make the situation by injecting unwanted ads, distribute malware and perpetrate let visitors click fraud.