Kaspersky experts have discovered a new MovieReaper campaign. The multi-stage Trojan spreads through movie torrents, such as "The Odyssey," and uses the Solana blockchain to hide its C2 infrastructure.
I run Linux myself but even on windows… if you have qbittorrent 5.1.2+ (not sure in earlier versions; had to open an old vm image to confirm it went back this far)
then anyone who only pirates videos/music could just set qbittorrent > downloads > excluded file names to have *.exe on one of the lines and avoid this easily.
people who do pirate games/software could probably still add something like these to the same setting without disrupting their game/sw dls and still avoid 90+% of these kind of attacks:
only spot it might need some fine tuning that i can think of is if you have the occasional fitgirl pack that has optional stuff for 720 vs 1080 videos as a selective download… and you should really be looking at those when you download anyway
I run Linux myself but even on windows… if you have qbittorrent 5.1.2+ (not sure in earlier versions; had to open an old vm image to confirm it went back this far)
then anyone who only pirates videos/music could just set qbittorrent > downloads > excluded file names to have
*.exeon one of the lines and avoid this easily.people who do pirate games/software could probably still add something like these to the same setting without disrupting their game/sw dls and still avoid 90+% of these kind of attacks:
*.avi.exe *.mp3.exe *.mp4.exe *.mkv.exe *dvdrip*.exe *webrip*.exe *web.dl*.exe *web-dl*.exe *bluray*.exe *1080p*.exe *720p*.exe *480p*.exe *x264*.exe *x265*.exe *hvec*.exe *av1*.exe *imax*.exe *aac5.1*.exe *hdtv*.exe *amzn*.exe *hulu*.exe *yify*.exe *yts*.exe *eztv*.exeonly spot it might need some fine tuning that i can think of is if you have the occasional fitgirl pack that has optional stuff for 720 vs 1080 videos as a selective download… and you should really be looking at those when you download anyway