South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware — over 600,000 customers report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs
www.tomshardware.com
ISP sends malware to hundreds of thousands of customers to stop them from using a file-sharing service.
  • @[email protected]
    42•6 months ago

    Wow, if I was a customer, I’d be dropping them immediately even if I didn’t pirate. That is sketchy as hell.

    • Annoyed_🦀
      26•6 months ago

      It wasn’t even the pirate that’s get attacked, it’s an indirect attack on Webhard, a cloud storage system provider that utilise BitTorrent. The ISP attack Webhard users by injecting malware to both disable Webhard software and mess up the user’s file, some even had their PC disabled probably due to messed up C drive. Some individuals is being charged but to think ISP will use such tactic just because their paying customer used up the bandwidth they provided, the only sensible choice is like you said, drop the damn thing if possible.

  • @breakingcups
    16•6 months ago

    What a weird set of events. It’s not even clear what was actually used as infection method.

  • @RestrictedAccount
    15•6 months ago

    Why would a telecom company care what the content of the bits they are being paid to transmit?

    The volume I can understand.