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Grand Theft Auto IV Fans Under Assault
The Telegraph is reporting that attackers are seeding P2P networks with bogus soundtracks, promising cheat codes, and even fully functional pirated copies of the game. Turns out if they download any of these files, the downloader's are getting nailed with Trojans and spyware designed to pilfer the user's personal data. That's right: online criminals are targeting copyright thieves to steal their identities. There's a punch line in that irony somewhere.
John Safa, a former hacker who now works in cybersecurity, discovered a virus just minutes after logging on to a file sharing network. Maybe it's not identity thieves seeding the P2P networks at all, but the RIAA (there are soundtracks involved, after all). Kaboom! You've been sued ... If there is any good news to be found in any of this, it's that maybe these P2P networks will get so polluted with this kind of sludge that the blatant piracy problem takes care of itself. « IBM Says FalconStor SIR Didn't Cut The Mustard | Main | CBS Buying CNET; So Does Old Media Understand The Web? (No) » |
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