'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware

Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by curryst on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:33PM (#26651990)

Some pirate release groups will compromise servers with public IPs to use as FTP hosts. The people that actually post the torrents then download from the FTP host, create a torrent, and upload it to the tracker (from their own PC).

Those hosts usually have fat internet pipes, allowing a bunch of people to download a copy over FTP at once, letting you claim credit for the first rip. There's also probably less of a paper trail; most of the hosts I'm aware of require some kind of ID, and would almost certainly hand that data over to law enforcement.

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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by da_big_ghey on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:13PM (#26655533)

In my best knowing such topsites are in most cases using colo with excellent peering. In comparing, most company file shares are local in office for best transfer speed. A other possible similarity situation is useing for XDCC bots: such bots have similar idea of usage compromised machine but are mostly lower grade computer than a topsite.

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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by galaxyLogic on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:41PM (#26673072)

That explains it probably. I now remember the IT-admin mentioning FTP. Thanks for the insight

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