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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware

www.tomshardware.com

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South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware

www.tomshardware.com

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

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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.

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

The volume I can understand.

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