According to researchers from the organizations Digital Citizens Alliance and RiskIQ, torrent trackers, of course, allow users to access pirated content, but also jeopardize their safety. It turned out that 800 of the most popular resources are regularly used to infect user computers with malware: it is contained in a downloadable file and distributed through banners and referrals.

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According to researchers from the organizations Digital Citizens Alliance and RiskIQ, torrent trackers, of course, allow users to access pirated content, but also jeopardize their safety. It turned out that 800 of the most popular resources are regularly used to infect user computers with malware: it is contained in a downloadable file and distributed through banners and referrals.

About 55% of infected initiated the download yourself, others could not even realize that your computer is infected (this is the so-called the downloads drive-by, which do not require additional action by the victim). Known cases where the virus was found in "hands". As an example, BY depriving the victim of savings in the form of bitcoins at $2 million, reports ZDNet.

Only in the USA every month the virus infected 12 million computers. Attackers, in turn, can be enriched, according to estimates, worth $70 million. "Free in this world does not exist, should pay for everything", — experts believe. They also make a recommendation to use only licensed software.

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