
Same thing happened to Demonoid
It happened on Demonoid as well, back in February. I was suddenly redirected to a scareware AV site; the problem was fixed about 2 days later. Wonder if the MAFIAA is sponsoring these hacks?
A hack on ad servers used by the Pirate Bay is exposing visiting surfers to malware. Site vulnerabilities in the ad delivery systems used by the torrent tracking site were exploited to plant malicious scripts, causing sections of the site to be blacklisted and blocked by Google (see here) and various security utilities. …
Not impossible.
Though, doubting that there's much honour in the malware crowd, I'd have thought the RIAA/MPAA renting a botnet was maybe something to be looked at after eliminating the more likely possibilities.
There must be all kinds of personality clashes and rivalries out there
Not exactly great PR for the RIAA/MPAA if they got found out, and pretty difficult to see how they could ever find a botnet-running-criminal that they knew they could trust.
As for using a middleman, the Indian episode probably makes it *harder* for someone supposedly respectable to use the excuse in the future of "Well, we hired this company overseas, and didn't know they were going to do anything illegal".
Weren't we reading, earlier today, about a certain Asia-continent firm hired to DDOS Pirate Bay in some questionably ethical cases of response to claims of copyright infringement? If some businesses so believe that their responsibility to conduct business in an ethical manner does not apply, outside of the national border, who can say where the mal-ads would have come from?
So, how soon before MPAA and RIAA have their own helicopter fleets?