BitTorrent and porn go hand in hand, so to speak. When Bram Cohen, the inventor of the protocol wanted to test his application in the wild, he used adult content to do so. In the years that followed, many BitTorrent sites specializing in adult content gained millions of visitors, but in the past year, usage has dropped.
Visitors to the world’s largest adult BitTorrent tracker were met with a surprise this morning. According to Google and Firefox, users accessing Empornium.us are exposed to four trojan horses and three exploits. The malware doesn’t appear to be hosted by the site itself, but it is coming from outside sources.
Cheggit.net is an adult content torrent site founded by a group of former members and admins from empornium.us. They were not happy with some of the changes a empornium, so they launched their own torrent site, not without success.
Cheggit went public nearly a day ago but the torrent site already has 20806 registered users, a [...]
In our previous posts about Targetpoints involvement Empornium.us we never got to hear the story from Emporniums former admins. The Israeli advertising company denied that it owns or bought Empornium. This motivated one of Emporniums former admins to contact TorrentFreak to tell their side of the story.
