BitTorrent users beware: Flaw lets hackers control your computer

  • 15 January 2018
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“Low complexity” hack for Transmission client may work against other clients, too.

 


 
Dan Goodin - 1/15/2018
 
There's a critical weakness in the widely used Transmission BitTorrent app that allows websites to execute malicious code on some users' computers. That's according to a researcher with Google's Project Zero vulnerability reporting team, who also warns that other BitTorrent clients are likely similarly susceptible.
 
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