They’ve always been for-profit viruses. There’s an entire underground market where you get paid X dollars every time you get someone to install said virus. The people adding viruses to pirate sites and torrent downloads have always done it for profit, not fun. Of course there may be one or two black hats out there just trying to fuck shit up, but the majority of it has always been about money.
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lath@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Piracy is changing in a different way than expected. Before, viruses were mostly of the type that do damage for fun or steal some game accounts. But all that was left behind.
Nowadays, it’s all about stealing your cryptocurrency or making your hardware mine cryptocurrency, organized crime ransomware and government agencies hijacking your shit to spy on its own citizens or rival countries.
With the shift towards a higher digital presence, so do the dangers grow exponentially.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
That is not what is happening here. They aren’t shutting these sites down to keep us safe, they are shutting them down to enforce protection of capital.
lath@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
Yes, my answer diverged from the topic. I was caught up in a chain of thought of my own when I posted and didn’t realize it.