One of the most active torrent communities is witnessing an exodus of moderators and admins. Nearly all active staff of 1337x have abandoned the site claiming that the owner failed to fix several security holes. The (former) staffers have now launched their own site and have begun redirecting 1337x traffic to their new home.
TV blog, SoapHub, took a deep dive into the murky waters of torrent downloads and the results are kind of surprising, if not a bit odd.
Now, The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent hub is setting sail (get it, because of pirates?) into the streaming world.
To find out exactly how cybercriminals capitalize on the rise in illegal downloads of TV content, we have researched the landscape of malware threats disguised as new episodes of popular TV shows distributed through torrent websites.