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.

Torrent Tracker Windows Blocks 10 Users

A torrent site where users can download content illegally decided to block Windows 10 users, since the operating system "is nothing more than an espionage tool", so let the administrators know. Visitors to the torrent tracker ITS automatically to a video on YouTube redirected, which claims that all Windows 10 computer monitors.

TorrentFreak reports that also consider two other torrent trackers to not allow users with Windows 10. "Microsoft recently released Windows 10. We want our members to know that we consider to block the operating system on FSC. This means that you no longer running Windows 10 can use the site," according to the administrators of torrent tracker FSC.

Recently, there was a fuss about a Microsoft agreement entered into force on August 1, which states that Microsoft may block pirated games. Some websites think that the agreement applies to Windows 10, but the operating system is not mentioned in the agreement. However, for example, are mentioned Xbox and Windows games from Microsoft, as well as online gaming service Xbox Live.

BitTorrent Clients Can Strengthen DoS Attacks

Several BitTorrent clients and BitTorrent Sync application to abuse for performing DRDoS attacks, warns researcher Florian Adamsky from City University London. Reflective DRDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.

In a traditional DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) attackers have lots of infected computers or servers attacks a website. In the case of a DRDoS-attack is sent to a "reflector" movement, which then forwards it to the final target. DRDoS attacks are especially effective if they send more traffic to the target than they have received from the attacker.

BitTorrent

BitTorrent-Adamsky discovered that different protocols can be used to reinforce this way Denial of Service attacks. The problem is present in the UTP, DHT, Message Stream Encryption- and BitTorrent Sync protocols. Especially via BitTorrent Sync attack can be effective, since the attack traffic by a factor of 20 can be strengthened. In the case of popular torrent clients such as uTorrent and Vuze can increase attacks fold, respectively 39 and 54.

An additional problem is that detect attacks via BitTorrent are difficult due to the dynamic port ranges and encrypted handshake used by the clients. Across TorrentFreak Adamsky reports that the attack is simple to implement. An attacker only needs to have a valid info-hash or in the case of BitTorrent Sync on the "secret". BitTorrent has been informed and has in a recent beta version patched the issue. UTorrent however still vulnerable and Vuze has yet to roll out an update.

Malwarebytes Block Torrent Sites Because IP Range

The anti-virus software company Malwarebytes blocking various torrent sites like Isohunt and Lime Torrents because they are located in the vicinity of suspicious IP addresses. Users of the paid solution Malwarebytes can not visit the torrent sites, unless they are removed from the blocklist manually.

The torrent sites themselves are not considered harmful by the anti-virus company. "We block the IP addresses because there are plenty of other IP addresses on the same network are containing all sorts malvertising and fraud sites," said Steven Burn Malwarebytes opposite TorrentFreak . The party behind the IP range would not respond to reports of Malwarebytes, which it was decided to block all IP addresses from the hosting provider.

Explain How They Protect Users VPN Providers

VPN providers have an important role to Internet users who wish to protect their IP address on the Internet, eg because of privacy reasons or to access services in another country, but which provider now goes best with the privacy and anonymity of users?

A question every year by TorrentFreak states, which give this year nearly 50 VPN providers twelve answer questions about their process. So let providers know if they store logs, under what jurisdiction they fall, what tools they use to prevent abuse, or give them to DMCA takedown requests hearing how users can pay all or whether BitTorrent traffic is permitted.

In addition, make the providers clearly what VPN-compound and encryption algorithm they recommend to users, whether they use their own DNS servers, or physical control over the VPN servers and whether they have a "canary" or warning device to alert users to the Should a court has forbidden them to communicate. It also explains what providers do when they get a court order to get user information and if this has happened before. Here let Anonymizer, BlackVPN and Mullvad know they sometimes ask investigators to get user data.

Mullvad says in these cases did not provide user information, while BlackVPN states that they can identify users only by court order and that they have never received such an order. Anonymizer claims to have received court orders, but no customer data have been transferred. In the overview of TorrentFreak only VPN providers stated that gave answer, and keep records longer than 7 days. Most VPN providers say no to retain logs, although 15 are those who do.