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Researchers Counter Massive Onslaught of Fake Torrents

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With an estimated quarter billion active users per month, BitTorrent is a lucrative target for scammers and malware peddlers.

Every day thousands of “fake” torrents are uploaded from malicious sources, often labeled with the names of popular movies or TV-shows. Needless to say, those who download these torrents don’t get what they were looking for. Instead they are redirected to scam websites or lured into installing malware.

One of the prime platforms where these fake torrents are published is without doubt The Pirate Bay. To measure the scope of this problem and what can be done about it, a group of researchers decided to monitor all Pirate Bay uploads. The just-published results are rather surprising.

During a two week period the researchers collected a total of 29,330 torrent files and found that 12,209 were “fake” and eventually removed from The Pirate Bay. Put differently, one in three torrent files uploaded to The Pirate Bay links to malware or scams of some kind.
This result may be surprising to many Pirate Bay users as these fake files rarely stay on the site for long. Moderators tend to delete the torrents in question within minutes or hours, but according to the researchers this is too late for the many people who’ve already started downloading the files.

The researchers estimate that in a year’s time millions of people will be downloading these fake files. Interestingly, people from the US, China and Brazil fall for these scams more than the average downloader. BitTorrent users from Spain, India and Great Britain on the other hand are best at avoiding them.

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The researchers believe the mass distribution of these fake files poses a serious threat to the security of Internet users, but luckily they’ve also come up with a solution.

In addition to describing and analyzing the fake torrent phenomenon, the researchers have also developed a tool that allows BitTorrent users to check torrents before they’re downloaded. Their TorrentGuard application is available as a Vuze plugin and users can also test torrents via the website.

The researchers are able to accurately identify fake torrents because the vast majority of the files are uploaded by a small group of uploaders. They found that 90% of all fake files were initially seeded by just 20 different IP-addresses. By using the TorrentGuard tool, the researchers estimate that 10 million fake downloads per year can be prevented.

Researcher Rubén Cuevas of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid explains that the research is important because it reveals the threat posed by these fake torrents. He hopes that more researchers will take this aspect of cyber-security seriously and that the research presents an opportunity to educate the public.

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“Of course skilled users are aware of these risks and are able to identify fake torrents in most cases. However, a large percentage of BitTorrent users are unskilled and not capable of distinguishing between legitimate and fake torrents.”
“We hope that our research is able to make at least a fraction of the unskilled users aware of this threat, so that they become more careful when selecting the torrents to download,” Cuevas says.
Ideally, the research team would like BitTorrent portals and trackers to cooperate.

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“In order to make TorrentGuard even more efficient, we would need the collaboration of both BitTorrent portals and BitTorrent trackers,” Cuevas said.
This would not only make the TorrentGuard tool more effective, it would also prevent even more fake torrents from spreading as BitTorrent sites would be able to detect them earlier.

The Pirate Bay team informed us that they are interested in collaborating, especially if doing so can prevent millions of people from falling for these scams. OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent, the two largest public BitTorrent trackers, have also indicated that they want to work with the researchers to improve the tool.
If the collaboration leads to a practical solution which is adopted across all popular BitTorrent portals, the researchers predict that 35 million fake downloads can be prevented, making the Internet a safer place for all.
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I used torrents since day one "and mirc before that" and never had a fake torrent yet. Maybe just lucky
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I go back to the MIRC and slapping people with trouts and all.... but I even remember the old school BBS sites around the world from yester year.... Great tribute to those of you still in the game!!!
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Don't think for a moment all this is spam as the article plays it up to be. The copywrong group has long been known for hiring third parties to serve up malware. While there are certainly some spam going out, it's not all spammers.

I can remember the days of BBS, the local phone hooked to the modem, and clean downloads. I still chuckle about the day I got a 14.4k baud modem and thinking I had a barn burner. And I remember many a day in IRC with being slapped with a trout. My answer was usually along the lines of:

Photostill slaps xxx with a frozen trout. Tender yet?

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Here's some aspirins, you gonna need it.
Photostill drops an Acme anvil on xxx's head.

Many years ago I got out of torrents and never returned. Mainly because they were not secure. The man in the middle harvesting of IPs sort of showed that. It was a lot better in private trackers but still, if there is a hole one place, there's bound to be more. Never did go to public trackers.

Now-a-days, as odd as it sounds, I don't download much. Not really interested in most of the offers and over time I've learned that everything except movies and music tends to get dated fairly fast.

Spam and malware are one of those things that you always have to look for. I don't do financials on a computer so there is nothing there to steal other than b/w.
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