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Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A researcher has uncovered one of the more unusual finds in the annals of malware: boobytrapped files available on sites frequented by software pirates that rat out downloaders and try to prevent unauthorized downloading in the future. Vigilante, as SophosLabs Principal Researcher Andrew Brandt is calling the malware, gets installed when […]