South Korean telecommunications giant KT is under investigation for allegedly hacking customers who used torrent services.
  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    Missing file I can understand, but how they infect the user with malware? Is it through the BitTorrent protocol, or undisclosed vulnerbility of the Grid Service? The kill chain isn’t complete.

    P.S. The use of BitTorrent in Korea by service providers is somehow justified IMO given how expensive the bandwidth is which Twitch quit the market.

  • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    Are they changing the payload of the .torrent or the actual file being transmitted over BitTorrent?

    Kind of hard to tell what