rbran

This event is probably related to ITorrent (a torrent hosting site) being compromised, it was hosting a very similar malware: https://threatcluster.io/cluster/itorrentsorg-compromised-to...

For a while all torrents downloaded from that site where replaced by a torrent of simple exe, it disguised itself by using a directory icon, plus having 800M of padding to simulate a real torrent.

asm.js really seem to be a good solution, I hope some day it will be used to do more than web games. But at the same time, the vision of the future of compiling everything in javascript is pretty scary.