Social media share

Our service is free and here for you anytime. But we could use your help. Please share on social media with folks who have similar interests. Bring in new members who appreciate what we offer. Your support makes a difference!

Server statistics

Current Load: 1.53
Load 5 mins ago: 1.05
Load 15 mins ago: 0.91
Uptime: 15 days, 11h38m
System: Debian GNU/Linux

Your internet provider watches what you download and might slow down your connection. Use a good VPN to stay private. With a VPN, you can browse freely, keeping your online activities secure and uninterrupted.

Useful information

Sktorrent.org is a private torrent site where you can share and download torrents. It comes with a forum, and as a registered member, you have the power to upload, edit, and delete your torrents. Remember to check out the rules before diving in. Join us and be part of our torrent community, where sharing and downloading are made easy and secure!

Chat > Scammers Use European Union Website

Welcome to our Forums	FAQ Search
	Controls · View New Posts · Mark All Read

You are in: Torrent Forums / Chat / Scammers Use European Union Website

Discuss about

torrent trackers

torrents in general

. Know something that we don't?

Share & discuss

it here!

admin

Posted at 15:59:45 02.06.2021(185 wks ago)

Administrator

Uploaded: 99.00 GB
Downloaded: 99.32 GB
Posts: 105
Ratio: 1.00
Location: Paraguay

Scammers are using the website of the European Banking Authority to trick people into signing up for dubious pirate streaming subscriptions. The 'hacking' scam, which also affected the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, has gained more popularity after search engines started to downrank regular pirate sites.

eu scamIn recent years, Google and other search engines have worked hard to demote pirate sites in their search results.

In part motivated by complaints from copyright holders, these efforts have started to pay off. Search traffic to pirate sites is clearly dropping.

At the same time, however, the downranking of pirate sites created a new problem. Prospective pirates don’t stop searching for leaked content. This means that search engines have to show something else instead, which isn’t always the best content.

In some cases, small pirate sites are elevated to the top results but scammers are taking advantage of the situation as well. And these scammers are increasingly abusing legitimate sites to do so, finding loopholes to publish pirate scam ads on well-respected domains.

This week we noticed a series of these promotions on the official site of the European Banking Authority (EBA). The EBA is the European Union’s official regulatory agency overseeing the local banking industry. However, its website also promotes scammy pirate sites.

Since regular pirate sites are downranked in search results, the EBA’s domain now appears as the top result for many questionable searches. This includes variations with “123movies online,” as can be seen below.

dead google
The scammers abuse the European Union website to upload PDFs that are stuffed with piracy-related terms, hoping to capture as much search traffic as possible. This works well because the EBA website has a good reputation and is not downranked in search results.

There are several PDFs circulating which mostly target new films such as ‘Army of the Dead’ and Godzilla vs. Kong. We’ve also seen promotions for films that are not yet available on pirate sites in the ‘HD quality’ that’s promised, including Fast and Furious 9.

eu arky
All PDFs link visitors to scammy streaming portals where people have to pay a subscription to gain access. Needless to say, this isn’t a smart idea. These portals are illegal and probably don’t even provide access to the advertised films. They will gladly accept your credit card, however.

The scammers appear to have found a backdoor into the EBA site, which allows them to upload files. Some of these PDFs have been removed over the past few days, but new ones keep appearing.

eba pirate scam
The European Banking Authority is not the only reputable organization to be compromised by these scammers. The same advertisements appear on many other legitimate sites as well, including Mississippi’s Department of Public Safety.

TorrentFreak contacted both organizations to alert them about the scammy content appearing on their sites. At the time of publication, we have yet to hear back.

qBittorrent

<< Prev 1 Next >>

Locked

You are not permitted to post in this forum.

10 Newest members