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HBO also noticed this bonus episode through its anti-piracy partner Marketly and took action in response. A takedown notice posted in the Lumen Database shows that the company asked Google to remove an “infringing” link to the non-existent release earlier this week.
They’re claiming to own the copyright to the Trojan horse?
I think they’re issuing a take down notice for using the name and posing as them.
“Takedown notice” has legal meaning, it’s not some random cease-and-desist letter that you can draft for anything you want and that has no legal weight other than that it might be scary.
Suspect Sonarr users didn’t have any issues, as it wouldn’t have gone looking for an episode 9.
Indeed, it’s only showing 8.
Mindlessly downloading an episode that doesn’t get a mention on the wiki page is amateur hour.
This isn’t exactly special. People have been putting viruses into torrents forever.
You should assume anything you download from the internet has a virus!
What? Are you telling me that “baby one more time.mp3.exe” I got off of Napster isn’t actually reliable? Gasp!
This is a perfect use case for having a VM, to handle all of your downloads before you play it.
Quite frankly in the bad old Napster days, when you downloaded random shit, if it only had a virus you were lucky, there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included.
Aren’t we still vulnerable through VMs, though? I seem to remember reading something about why Qubes OS is safer than a regular VM, having to do w/ zero trust, etc.
Qubes has more layers to the security onion, its true.
But a VM is still a REALLY strong level of containment.
The torrent was titled as .mkv (normal and expected) but the actual file was .lnk (not normal)… so you would have had to open a weird random .lnk file to activate the trojan?
The comments from obvious teenagers on 1337x on pretty much every torrent suggests that a lot of people do this
Windows hides extensions by default.
I wonder if an automated setup would play it without caring about the extension. If someone had something like Sonarr dropping episodes on a Plex drive, for example.
Well, the good news is that it wasn’t actually another episode.
