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Scammers Use Harvard Education Platform to Promote Pirated Movies

Scammers Use Harvard Education Platform to Promote Pirated Movies

Spammers are using Harvard's educational sharing tool H2O to promote pirated movies. Thousands of links to scammy sites have appeared…

6 years ago

Spammers Flood Google With Fake Takedown Notices

Google is facing a never-ending flood of takedown requests from copyright holders but there's also another problem cropping up. Spammers…

7 years ago

Researchers Counter Massive Onslaught of Fake Torrents

One third of all torrents uploaded to The Pirate Bay point to malware or scams, researchers report. While Pirate Bay…

10 years ago

Adwords for P2P, Advertising Opportunity or Spamming Tool?

This year, several companies launched advertising programs targeted at the millions of users of Limewire and other Gnutella or eD2k…

13 years ago

Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Target BitTorrent Users

A new trend is surfacing, as spammers have sent out millions of emails targeting BitTorrent users. The emails, that claim…

14 years ago

TorrentSpam: Report Fake and Malware Ridden Torrents

The popularity of BitTorrent also has its downsides. Over the past months we reported about fake torrents, torrents that force…

15 years ago

Media Defender to Spam P2P Networks With 16,000,000 Tracks from One Artist

Spam comes in many shapes and forms and today we have news that anti-piracy company Media Defender has hooked up…

15 years ago

Mininova Bans 3651 Scammers

Today Mininova announced that they banned 3652 spam/scammers. Fake files, "free stuff", and poker deals; Torrent sites are a great…

16 years ago