This Malware Has Unique Behavior Blocks Victims From Accessing Pirated Sites
But recently researchers from BleepingComputer have reported a malware that comes with quite a unique behaviour. This malware is named Vigilante by SophosLabs Principal Research, Andrew Brandt, the malware is known to have a role that actually ‘helps’ its victims not to do anything illegal. This Vigilante malware will modify the victim’s device host with a well-known pirated site and direct it to the localhost IP address of 127.0.0.1. That is if the victim accesses pirated sites such as The Piratebay and the likes, the victim’s device will automatically direct the connection to its own IP address which makes the pirated websites inaccessible to the victim....