Visitors to The Pirate Bay may now be tossing up whether or not to pay to decrypt their files after the torrent site hosted ransomware-barbed ads over the weekend.
According to security firm Malwarebytes, the chief threats behind the attack on Pirate Bay users were the Magnitude exploit kit and a relatively new ransomware subscription service, Cerber.
Ransomware attackers have been on a month-long malvertising rampage, targeting visitors to numerous porn and torrent sites to lead them to the Magnitude exploit kit.
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