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BitTorrent Breach: uTorrent Exposes Users to Scareware Threats

Calendar Sep 14, 2011 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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security advisory file sharing malware risks scareware uTorrent P2P threats
Popular P2P file sharing company said its systems were breached Tuesday, enabling an attacker to replace its uTorrent client download with scareware. BitTorrent Inc., which creates popular P2P file sharing software, said it discovered a breach of its systems Tuesday enabling an attacker to replace a file download of its uTorrent client with a scareware program.

The San Francisco-based company said the breach took place at 7:20 a.m. ET and lasted nearly two hours. Anyone attempting to download the standard Windows version of uTorrent would have instead downloaded a fake antivirus program.

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