Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters

• WR5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do you have a source for that? This article does not say that at all. It simply says that the person in question ripped Spider-Man Far From Home, that movie specifically was available from a lot of different users and locations, also had some cases where it had dangerous malware packaged, and that could have come from a Russian torrenting site. Nothing links this person directly to that malware or Russians at all.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The article says

    Soon it became dangerous to download the movie, though, as popular demand for the movie quickly put a target on downloaders’ backs and scammers soon planted malware in Spider-Man movie torrents that ReasonLabs reported used the movie to “lure in as many victims as possible.”

    ReasonLabs said that the malware was “likely from a Russian torrenting site.” It took over the would-be Spider-Man movie watchers’ computers without setting off Windows Defender and with the goal of cryptomining in the background for the bad actors’ benefit.

    It could be that the article is misquoting people and displaying a Bias, but I wouldn’t know.

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    • WR5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Right, but that specifically is not linking Steven Hale. So your original assertion that he is selling/supporting Russian malware is not substantiated by this article.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Exactly. That will have to be proved in court, and just making something available for anyone to use as they please is not “working with Russian hackers.” They would need to prove actual collusion to make the malware-ridden version more accessible.

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