{"id":6790,"date":"2026-09-19T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:59:22","slug":"european-organizations-and-users-infected-with-malware-via-torrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/european-organizations-and-users-infected-with-malware-via-torrents\/","title":{"rendered":"European organizations and users infected with malware via torrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent reports indicate that European organizations and individual users are increasingly being compromised by malware distributed through malicious torrent files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cybercriminals actively disguise these dangerous payloads as popular software or media files on peer-to-peer sharing networks to bypass initial suspicion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once downloaded and executed, the malware grants attackers unauthorized access to corporate networks, potentially leading to severe data breaches or ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This incident highlights the significant risks of shadow IT and the dangers of employees downloading unverified files on company-connected devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizations must enforce strict endpoint security policies and monitor network traffic to detect and block these peer-to-peer threats before they can escalate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/moviereaper-malware-torrent-odyssey-solana\/121344\/\">securelist.com article <\/a>for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports indicate that European organizations and individual users are increasingly being compromised by malware distributed through malicious torrent files. Cybercriminals actively disguise these dangerous payloads as popular software or<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/european-organizations-and-users-infected-with-malware-via-torrents\/\" class=\"av-btn av-btn-secondary av-btn-bubble\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">European organizations and users infected with malware via torrents<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><span class=\"bubble_effect\"><span class=\"circle top-left\"><\/span><span class=\"circle top-left\"><\/span><span class=\"circle top-left\"><\/span><span class=\"button effect-button\"><\/span><span class=\"circle bottom-right\"><\/span><span class=\"circle bottom-right\"><\/span><span class=\"circle bottom-right\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51,18],"tags":[65,204,173,201,20,203,202],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptografie-encryptie","category-kwetsbaarheidsmanagement","category-incident-management","tag-cybersecurity","tag-europe","tag-incidentresponse","tag-malware","tag-nis2","tag-shadowit","tag-torrents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nis2.management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}