Watch_Dogs torrent secretly installing a Bitcoin miner on thousands of computers

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=825079

by danso • 12 years ago

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jarnix• 12 years ago

Well, that's ironic: hacking a game about hacking and getting hacked.

mischanix• 12 years ago

Air quote "hacking" but yes.

I've commented on this in the past, but I saw a bitcoin miner in a supposed SimCity torrent over a year ago, so this is nothing new.

javindo• 12 years ago

There's no honour among thieves.

tkmcc• 12 years ago

Some very well known cracking/warez groups will add whatever you want to their 0-day releases if you pay them enough.

However, I wonder why the perpetrators used "winlogin.exe" as the malware executable file name instead of "winlogon.exe". If I remember correctly, Windows prevents you from killing any file named "winlogon.exe" from the Task Manager. Maybe to help prevent detection by heuristic anti-malware engines?

smtddr• 12 years ago

Comment Thirteen[1] is an interesting concept. "Mine 2 Play". What if the new micropayments for stuff online is with bitcoin-mining? You can my music tracks for $1 of mining on your computer? Sure it's actually more expensive for 85% of people to mine $1 on your PC than just pay for it... but it _feels_ free. Especially for kids who can mine on home/school computers a lot easier than asking parents for money.

1. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=113371411&postcou...

morbius• 12 years ago

Don't ever download warez.

FLACs and movies, fine. Go nuts. But never, EVER, EVER try your luck with cracked software.

It's not worth it.

mlambir• 12 years ago

I'd say the same about closed source software...

Watch_Dogs torrent secretly installing a Bitcoin miner on thousands of computers

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