Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Ok, I have a problem with this. They link to a PDF that shows the "methodology" used to determine what is malicious (https://torrentfreak.com/images/Watters-PiracyInSEA-071025-v2.pdf). Only it doesn't actually provide the methodology other than to state that a human identified it or a machine identified it as a cyber threat. Without info on how that identification process works, all the graphs they display are meaningless and so is the report.

I've never found it particularly difficult to find malware on open pirate sites.

Hell, if you walk into the Pirate Bay without a ad block on you could probably have a compromised EXE in two clicks.

I don't think malware is any worse or better than it's been for 30 years

Instead of zero as a comparison base, the report uses a pseudo count of one, concluding that the risk is 65 times higher

How delightfully nonsensical. I hope the authors were well-paid for their efforts.

I count denuvo or kernel anticheat as malware. And the probability to get those from a legal site are really high.

Not bad if you use Linux.

startrek.exe