Sunday, May 20, 2012

Anti-Piracy Outfits Launch Attack on BitTorrent Protocol

In recent weeks alarm bells sounded at Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team when it was discovered that an unknown entity is sending massive amounts of forged data packets and posing a threat to BitTorrent users worldwide. A detailed analysis reveals that anti-piracy outfits may be initiating these attacks to prevent movies from being downloaded. According to security experts, the legality of these attacks is doubtful.

According to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Poland, BitTorrent’s uTP protocol is under attack.
The security experts have observed a massive spike in activity compared to 2011, originating from centralized locations in Russia, Canada, China, Australia and the USA.
The CERT group operates a system that scans for online threats and the attack on BitTorrent triggered several of their honeypot sensors. These attack sources send data packages that appear to be legitimate, but the IP-addresses they send are forged.
The security researchers, who say these poisoning attacks are....

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