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Tech News Torrent Sites Ban Popular Uploader ‘CracksNow’ for Sharing Ransomware

Several torrent sites have banned the account of the popular software uploader CracksNow. The software and Medicines were repeatedly flagged as malicious and some came with the GandCrab ransomware. While malicious torrents are nothing new, it's rare for this to happen via a "trusted" uploader.

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The entertainment industries regularly warn the public at large that pirate sites are riddled with malware and viruses, posing a threat to unwitting visitors.
While these comments are partly made out of self-interest, they’re not entirely overblown. There are indeed plenty of scammers who upload nasty content that is added to, or disguised as, popular files.
This is nothing new and generally speaking, these files are easy to spot and swiftly removed from well-moderated sites. However, in a recent case, this wasn’t as apparent, since it involved a well-known uploader that had a “trusted’ status on some sites.
The uploader in question is Cracksnow, who shared tens of thousands of cracked software titles in recent years. A dedicated group of followers watched these torrents and “Cracksnow” was previously listed as one of the most searched for terms on torrent sites.
In recent months, however, numerous reports claimed that these popular releases contained malware, or even ransomware, which can do serious harm to one’s computer.
Below is an example of a now-removed torrent on which reportedly included a copy of the GandCrab ransomware.
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Ransom?
A few of these reports are nothing out of the ordinary. Anti-virus vendors sometimes flag Medicines as malicious, without good reason, for example. Also, “rival” uploaders may try to discredit the competition with fake malware reports.
However, in the case of CracksNow, the complaints were plentiful, persistent, and not without consequence.
Earlier this month, the popular torrent site 1337x took action and banned the account. This is quite unusual since it was a “trusted” uploader, but a senior staffer informs TorrentFreak that the reports were warranted.
“He was banned by myself because I found ransomware in his uploads,” the 1337x admin, who prefers not to be named, tells us.

“I also checked the same uploads from him on a couple other torrent sites and got the same results. I immediately alerted their staff about it so they could investigate and take appropriate action, which they did,” the admin adds.

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GandCrab 5.1, found by the admin
Indeed, several other torrent sites, including TorrentGalaxy, have the CracksNow account as well. A Pirate Bay admin also confirmed that the uploader was purged from their site months ago, but no reason was specified.

Every day moderators on torrent sites have to review a lot of reported torrents. These are all checked carefully and in many cases, there’s nothing malicious going on. That said, malware infested torrents are found on a daily basis.

The 1337x admin informs us that they have a system in place to ensure that things don’t get out of hand. This includes an approval process for uploaders. However, this obviously isn’t perfect.

“It is a daily battle to sort the scumbags from the legit uploaders and staff work very hard but it’s not foolproof. What I will say is staff are very quick to adapt to all the new ways people try to beat our systems,” the admin says.

In the case of CracksNow, the moderators didn’t see it coming. That said, the account is banned now and the team believes that all malicious torrents have been deleted.

“I must admit that it is rare for a trusted uploader of this caliber to go rogue. It’s normally new guys that have the infected files,” the 1337x admin notes.

“CracksNow was a trusted uploader and had been warned in the past but only for misdemeanors. To the best of our knowledge, the remaining torrents are ransomware free but his account is due for removal.”

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Banned!
Indeed, while many recent torrents have been deleted, the CracksNow account and many older torrents remain available. This is because the site has some built-in protections which makes it hard to delete accounts with this many torrents.

The moderation team doesn’t believe these older torrent are malicious but it’s working on a full removal of the account. This will take some time though.

While CracksNow is no longer welcome at several torrent sites, the uploader still has his own home at CracksNow.com. Plenty of new uploads still appear there regularly.

TorrentFreak reached out to the uploader to hear the other side of the story, but after a few days, we have yet to get a response.
 

M4Mohsin

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thanx for sharing a knowledge
 

GauravV

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i have faced it.... GandCrab file encryption ransomware and ZeeXevy encryption malware and ransomeware..

Right after running WPS Business Medicines ....
 

SiteWizard

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yes that is how it starts ..
infect a famous server and then the virus will spred them arround the world ...
 
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difrag

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I'm glad they finally banned this uploader, I don't recall downloading a CracksNow torrent within the past year or so that was free from malware. I stopped downloading anything from CracksNow, CracksMind, CrackzSoft, because there is always a good chance that I will end-up having to go through a big hassle to remove annoying malware. Thanks for sharing this great info
 

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I still use the 1337x for torrents & remember how popular Cracksnow was at a time. But now its not at all trusted also need to check totally the comments & avoid this tactics as ransomware can cause real trouble. Thanks for sharing great piece of information.. Can save alot to someone..
 

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wow, I stopped downloading their apps long time ago...
 

Imran Hashmi

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Thanks for sharing a valuable information. Mostly I spent my time on this website but never been download from this user. Hence, Hail "TeamOS"!!!
 

pinkfloyder

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Thanks for the info, always good to know!!
 

Stacman

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Great! I'm glad after I got nailed with GandCrab 5.1. Fortunately, I had everything backed up on Blu-Ray so everything was recovered...
 

netwar

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Wow, never tought that this could happen. Have not used much of their releases, but heard from them quite a lot.

But isn't ransomware kinda easy to detect byantivirus? ... well.. maye not..

HOpe noone was affected with those ransomwares...
 

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For what it is worth. Medicines Now apologized, and eliminated those apps that had the ransomware. See Torrent Freak for the article.........
 

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stupid me,got infected.lost all on system with ransonware. all for audio converter.
music i will never get back.
all in all i'm stupid.
 

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Please let him not come back. Let him be permanently ban. He made me to loose my data to virus. Up till now my computer is still infected. I am using another system currently. I have not being able to decrypt the files. The virus is .GFS type. If there is any solution please help me
 

kde1209

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Please let him not come back. Let him be permanently ban. He made me to loose my data to virus. Up till now my computer is still infected. I am using another system currently. I have not being able to decrypt the files. The virus is .GFS type. If there is any solution please help me

Hi,

I'm sorry for your data :(

But I would advise you to create your own discussion rather than posting here ... So you'll have a better chance of having a return ;)
 

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This are sad days for all pirates around the earth :(
 

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Thanks for the information
 

Martiiez

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OMG. I've ever used many programs from this brand.

Thank you for your reminding.
 

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Hi,

I'm sorry for your data :(

But I would advise you to create your own discussion rather than posting here ... So you'll have a better chance of having a return ;)

Sorry Sir with all due respect I will not allow it to happen again. Please how do I start my create my own discussion when i am still a registered member with low ratio not even verified member. And how do I go about it?
 

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Thanks for the update just saw it today i used to download from cracksnow long time ago after i joined TEAM OS one year ago its been my default site for software download. Thanks TEAM OS.
 
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