BitTorrent

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Maze Runner: The Death Cure' tops the chart this week, followed by 'The Greatest Showman'. 'Molly's Game' completes the top three. This week we have three newcomers in our chart. Maze Runner: The Death Cure is the most downloaded ...

Bram Cohen, best known as the creator of BitTorrent, is now working on a new cryptocurrency project called Chia. At its core, Chia plans to provide a green alternative to current mining practices, one that decreases the chance of centralization through mining practices.

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Annihilation'. 'Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle' completes the top three. This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the most downloaded movie.

If you're one of over 100 million uTorrent users, you should immediately upgrade to the latest version of the BitTorrent client. In November 2017, Google's Project Zero identified a vulnerability, which BitTorrent Inc. (the company that owns and develops uTorrent) patched just in the nick of time. While the ...

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'. 'The Shape of Water' completes the top three. This week we have four newcomers in our chart. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is the most ...

As Spotify prepares to collect billions of dollars with a listing on the New York Stock exchange, a little-known fact about the company has emerged. The music streaming service, which had uTorrent developer Ludvig Strigeus as one of its early developers, was also the owner of the popular BitTorrent client ...

Bram Cohen, the mastermind behind BitTorrent, claims he didn't set out to build a pirate ship when he launched the file-sharing product in 2003. All he wanted to do was make it easier to move big stuff around the web—videogame updates, maybe, or the Linux distros that developers liked to swap.

BitTorrent client uTorrent is suffering from an as yet undisclosed vulnerability. The security flaw was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, who previously said he would reveal a series of "remote code execution flaws" in torrent clients. BitTorrent Inc. has rolled out a 'patch' in the latest ...

BitTorrent's peer-to-peer app and its lightweight uTorrent counterpart are susceptible to particularly nasty hijacking flaws. Google researcher Tavis Ormandy recently detailed a host of DNS rebinding exploits in Windows versions of the software that lets attackers resolve web domains to the user's computer, ...

Windows Defender Antivirus (AV) research department caught a massive outbreak of Dofoil malware variants, which managed to attack nearly half of a million BitTorrent users within less than 12 hours. Researchers detected a new digital currency mining campaign being held via Russian-based BitTorrent ...

The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States. For the fourteenth year in a row, it's promoting tracks of the performing artists. Years ago the festival released these tracks for free via BitTorrent, but times have changed. While "SXSW Torrent" keeps ...

A recent malware campaign that attempted to install a resource-draining currency miner on more than 400,000 computers in 12 hours was caused by a malicious backdoor that was sneaked into a BitTorrent application called Mediaget, a Microsoft researcher said Tuesday. The failed campaign is the latest ...

Bram Cohen — the inventor of file sharing service BitTorrent — is behind an up and coming cryptocurrency called Chia. Chia, which doesn't require massive amounts of electricity like Bitcoin does, has raised almost $3.4 million without the help of an initial coin offering (ICO). The money will help the startup ...