This alarmist story is making the rounds everywhere, claiming that downloading GoT torrents is dangerous.
https://securitywatch.pcmag.com/malware/310063-game-of-thrones-torrents-are-perfect-for-delivering-malware
But is it? Lets Dig in a bit more and go to the original Kaspersky report that...
TorrentFreak mentions that the seventh season of Game of Thrones was pirated over a billion times. Getting data published from piracy tracker MUSO, the report suggests that each episode of the seven episode season was pirated 140 million times. Most pirated viewers chose to stream the episodes...
While is has been widely reported that HBO suffered hacks recently that did contain scripts and data about its programming, it has been verified now that season 7 episode 4 "The Spoils of War" is out in the torrent community. However this episode was not part of that hack, be seemingly has come...
On July 31st it was reported that HBO had "recently experienced a cyber incident, which resulted in the compromise of proprietary information." Now the hackers have launched their website called WinterLeak, where they claim to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data, and have uploaded it for anyone to...
Torrentfreak reports of HBO tracking torrent swarms of its popular show, Game of Thrones. The show's seventh season started this past Sunday. Through its anti-piracy partner IP Echelon, the company has sent warning messages to ISPs of would-be pirates. The message states the alleged users IP...