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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[–] kbal@fedia.io 30 points 6 days ago

Instead of zero as a comparison base, the report uses a pseudo count of one, concluding that the risk is 65 times higher

How delightfully nonsensical. I hope the authors were well-paid for their efforts.

[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 13 points 5 days 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.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago

I count denuvo or kernel anticheat as malware. And the probability to get those from a legal site are really high.

[–] kereshnull 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

startrek.exe

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

I've never found it particularly difficult to find malware on open pirate sites.

Hell, if you walk into the Pirate Bay without a ad block on you could probably have a compromised EXE in two clicks.

I don't think malware is any worse or better than it's been for 30 years