Watch_Dogs torrent secretly installing a Bitcoin miner on thousands of computers

Well, that's ironic: hacking a game about hacking and getting hacked.

Some very well known cracking/warez groups will add whatever you want to their 0-day releases if you pay them enough.

However, I wonder why the perpetrators used "winlogin.exe" as the malware executable file name instead of "winlogon.exe". If I remember correctly, Windows prevents you from killing any file named "winlogon.exe" from the Task Manager. Maybe to help prevent detection by heuristic anti-malware engines?

There's no honour among thieves.

Comment Thirteen[1] is an interesting concept. "Mine 2 Play". What if the new micropayments for stuff online is with bitcoin-mining? You can my music tracks for $1 of mining on your computer? Sure it's actually more expensive for 85% of people to mine $1 on your PC than just pay for it... but it _feels_ free. Especially for kids who can mine on home/school computers a lot easier than asking parents for money.

1. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=113371411&postcou...

Don't ever download warez.

FLACs and movies, fine. Go nuts. But never, EVER, EVER try your luck with cracked software.

It's not worth it.