Study Reveals a Malware Problem on Pirate Sites, but How Bad is It? (torrentfreak.com)

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A new report investigates the cybersecurity risks consumers face when using digital piracy services in Southeast Asia. The findings clearly show that pirate sites are a bigger threat than legal streaming platforms, suggesting that countermeasures are warranted. However, does is also mean that pirates are 65 times more likely to be infected by malware? And is that even important?

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[-] Mordikan@kbin.earth 14 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, I have a problem with this. They link to a PDF that shows the "methodology" used to determine what is malicious (https://torrentfreak.com/images/Watters-PiracyInSEA-071025-v2.pdf). Only it doesn't actually provide the methodology other than to state that a human identified it or a machine identified it as a cyber threat. Without info on how that identification process works, all the graphs they display are meaningless and so is the report.