South Korean telecom company attacks customers with malware — over 600,000 torrent users report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs
www.tomshardware.com
ISP sends malware to hundreds of thousands of customers to stop them from using a file-sharing service.
  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Why would a telecom company care what the content of the bits they are being paid to transmit?

    The volume I can understand.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    Wow, if I was a customer, I’d be dropping them immediately even if I didn’t pirate. That is sketchy as hell.

    • Annoyed_🦀 🏅@monyet.cc
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      5 months ago

      It wasn’t even the pirate that’s get attacked, it’s an indirect attack on Webhard, a cloud storage system provider that utilise BitTorrent. The ISP attack Webhard users by injecting malware to both disable Webhard software and mess up the user’s file, some even had their PC disabled probably due to messed up C drive. Some individuals is being charged but to think ISP will use such tactic just because their paying customer used up the bandwidth they provided, the only sensible choice is like you said, drop the damn thing if possible.