Friday 16 September 2016
Try hitting up The Pirate Bay to look for torrents with Chrome or Firefox and you’ll most likely see a malware warning message. VentureBeat spotted the issue, which appears to affect only torrent search result pages – that means the entire domain hasn’t been blocked. It’s possible that the site is hosting an ad network that’s running malicious ads. I tried a few searches and noticed that the warning appeared only in certain instances on result pages. Still, that was enough to raise a flag with Google’s Safe Browsing service, which powers security features for both aforementioned browsers. If an…
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