"Trusted pirate" isn't an oxymoron, because there is really awesome trusted pirates out there. And those are the people who provided malware free software for years.
Your mentioning of recall made me smile. I don’t think anyone with an inkling of real world security has asked for it, or copilot. Both scare me because of their obvious security risks.
@@leonidas14775 Agreed. I have CP and RC turned off in policy settings using ShutUpWindows10. As a note; the latest features update to win11 turned things back on again that I'd turned off - so be warned that Microsoft will try to be shifty about Recall and Copilot. I don't know why they're trying to ram these things down our collective throats, but it's really making me reconsider using Microsoft products for any daily driver other than gaming.
and then you get totally valid DLL injectors to get a 20+ year old game to run on modern systems being flagged just because you want it to not crash or run like dogshit because 16/32 bit support died a long time ago and/or you want to run a directX to vulkan translation layer and/or shaders
@@karolstopinski8350Not really. AV/EDR/Sandbox software doesn't check if malware is *actually* bad because it's hard to define what "bad" means. They only look for symptoms and common exploit behaviors. Which is totally what many cracks, trainers, mods, dll injectors do (for legit reasons). AV doesn't know that it's "ethical exploit" doing some kind of exploitation that user expects it to do. Malware detecting systems are simple creatures - they see something "sus", they flag it. You know it's like browser extension that reads your cookies - behavioral AV analysis will say it steals your data. But it may be just some fancy auto-login extension or any other thing that legitimately uses your cookies for good reason. I mean just look at Skyrim SKSE - it totally behaves like full fledged malware lol
I did a deep dive into those 'reputable sources' on piracy threads for software. I cracked the exact version of some programs to see how different they really are. It took time to reverse engineer, but it wasn’t too hard, patched for full functionality and all the paid features. Comparing it to different group releases, I found some with tons of obfuscated code, packed executables, anti-debugging anti-VM tricks, certificate pinning, Some releases were clean, but most people wouldn't know better than to grab the first one that pops up
As you mentioned most people wouldn't be able to do that, and as leo mentioned in the video/comments all it takes is these people deciding to release one malicious crack after getting people into a habit of just trusting them and running without precautions to completely ruin a lot of computers or steal a lot of information. The safest way to pirate is to just not pirate, but a lot of people feel like they're entitled to whatever game or software they want and pirate it because why would they ever pay for it, or stuff like oh I hate denuvo and won't buy it but I'm still entitled to it so I'll pirate it. The saddest part is a lot of pirates do buy the games that actually interest them, but then you have pirates who think they're entitled to whatever they want going "if they rerelease it I'll buy it" or "if they remove denuvo I'll buy it", but when it happens they don't and when called out either stay silent or go " it's too expensive for 10 year old roms" or "why would I pay for something I can get for free". I don't agree with piracy, but at least many actually pay for the software they enjoy if it's available to the public for purchase, but then you have people like this making it seem like pirates just all want free stuff.
@@Kairi5431in my opinion "freeloaders" are the minority. People would rather use good service when it's available (like steam). Of course there is a small group of people that you describe that exist but they will exist no matter what. On the other end there are people who will buy even shitty service no matter what. But in the middle there is this undecided group of people that can do one of these depending on the circumstances. And with enshitification of streaming like netflix or content creation like adobe people start to trust the companies less in the quality of their service (because it's predatory) and tend to pirate more. I feel like piracy was much more of a thing in like 2000s, then it started to decline with actually good services and now with the enshitification it's on the rise again. There will still be a small group that will pirate everything. There are some reasons for that like age or income, but if the person is older from 1st world country then it's quite questionable.
lets be honest pirats are often kids that dont have the financial freedom to buy software that is thousands of dollars a year, those kids might be naive, but they still are doing creative work with adobe or things like fusion360@@Kairi5431
Piracy megathread is your best friend, as a student I didn't have money to buy photoshop. Wacatac trojan is the most common false positive with cracks.
As a somewhat season eastern eutopean pirate (don't do it as much anymore) I think it's more important to know WHERE rather than WHAT, some common sense always helps and, of course, nothing is ever 100% safe but I managed to get malware/adware/whatever (that I saw, lol) on my machince only 2 or 3 times over 16+ years of occasionally pirating things
Solution: Have 2 computers. One for your pirated software, and a different one with no pirated software. Don't enter any information/passwords into the first one that has value to a cybercriminal.
Or... Dual boot with OS level encrypted partitions; not SED. Then, you'll mainly only have to worry about bootkits (as opposed to rootkits), which are becoming ever more common, as well. Just don't use the same password for the disk encryption that is used for something else the virus might gain access to, and sufficiently long and complex enough. I mean, you still have to practice good op sec, anyways. Of course, it could still install a rootkit onto the boot volume of the other OS, which is why you might store the boot volume on a detachable storage media, like a thumb drive, and only insert it while booting the safe environment. Although, if your test environment is Windows and your safe environment is Linux, then your boot volume would reside on a file system the Windows OS can't read, anyways. In that case, I suppose they could put something in the UEFI partition, but that's not as easy since it's supposed to be hidden from the OS. The risk of a media player program being exploitable in a way which could provide access to these protected areas of the system are fairly remote.
Maybe just install it in a VM and configure the network config correctly or just remove the internet from the vm if that app doesn't need it which is usually the case@@TheChadXperience909
It was a good decision years ago to switch into FOSS and don't bother with cracking software - especially in the times when viruses aren't those funny popups telling you to delete System32 manually, or flood your drive with b0rn in worse case - anymore
Its more like trusted uploaders vs pirates, its a way to tell folks this user has uploaded for years malware free software. Its not a guarantee its a summary of their history on the platform. Even than folks still check for themselves, pirates value good security software too. If someone has years of documented work uploading clean software, the upload is a few weeks old, and major antivirus software say its safe (along with virus total) it's reasonally safe software. Its really not that complicated, the first rule is to trust no one. Even than it doesn't mean "trusted" uploaders are safe, it's just a proven track record vs some random uploaded you have never heard of.
One thing you have very wrong is "and major antivirus software say its safe" that has nothing to do with how safe a program is. Good hackers know how to make malware fully undetected.
FOR games it is safe if you download from trusted uploaders. That is why this guy uses a software. Hackers will not bother to waste time building reputation and stole from poor teen gamer. Only those working/professional people who uses adobe is worth the effort.
As if "trusted" vendors dont use cracks to their own software, when they them-selves lose source code, or even stooped supporting a program, for SO long "CD" cracks become the only way to use said program. One assumes quite incorrectly vendors cheek before releasing, but as many who look into the exe know scene groups name "tags" are still their, leaving one to wonder what else is just left their. Example: Rockstar
@@MilkManCaravan Nintendo, they keep getting caught using roms online. Rom-groups use the header say who the up-loader is, Nintendo latter tried remove and hide it but found out they also place it somewhere in the middle, so other rom-groups cant just take out the header and claim it as their upload. All mega companies are hypocrite and Nintendo fan-boys defend this claiming "it's their roms in the first place" which is not true. The same way it's illegal download/make a copy of somebody else back up doesn't entitle Nintendo to that persons copy. Nintendo breaking the law in the same way as other who download roms.
Everything is a skill, pirating too. You just gotta learn how to do it safey and where are the safe sites. The best thing to do is reading a lot about certain pages security, and never download from sites with tons of shorteners.
@@ShockSmile Short URLs like this.that/123 that takes you to another short.url/456 that takes you to another and another and finally the download page
@@bcj842 yeah those nested shortener sites where you click on one and it brings to another, and another. Sometimes, most of the time, the endgame is not giving you malware but profitting from ads where at the end there's just smoke. Think about it, if they want to infect you with malware it'd be counterproductive to make it harder for you to download the file.
In regards to trusted uploaders and their safety, I agree with you. While there are many uploaders and scene groups that are considered trusted, the chance that they could inject malicious code into their releases is never 0%. At any point they could do so, and many pirates wouldn’t realize until it’s too late or someone tells people about it. That’s just a risk you have to take when pirating. While they may have a clean track record, never put 100% trust in them. Always analyze the release when downloading it. Test it in a VM, an isolated bare metal machine, whatever you have to do. Even after all that, if the scene group injected malware, you could still get infected. That’s just the risk of doing this sort of thing, but it’s a risk pirates are willing to take every time they use pirated content. It’s all about reducing the risk as much as possible despite knowing it will never be 100% secure.
Malware in torrents is definitely not something new, and I would also argue is not necessarily on the rise, maybe it is just being noticed more. Malware injected files hosted on sharing platforms like torrents has been happening since early Napster days and more often than not, are put there by people connected to the companies that are selling the "pirated" software.
I got hacked once. I was just looking for some android utility tools. My email, facebook, telegram all were compromised. But luckily I was able to regain access and I formatted my whole laptop.
@@strob5657 well these days for some games and software you don't actually buy the product,you only buy the license to those products and the company can just remove your access very easily,one example will be Ubisoft,so you don't actually "own" what you pay for
@mszuala no no not like that, I mean in what way does buying the right to access a product justify a moral right to steal the property you're getting access to. It's awful that you don't own the games yes and I do condone piracy but theft is theft and there's no real value in calling it otherwise
@@strob5657 did you know: whenever you buy a game on Steam, they can cancel your account and the game is gone? This is because you didn't buy the game, in fact just just bought the temporary right to play the game.
The real way to fight piracy is to lower the prices to be accessible to more people. I mean, I wont risk to be hacked if the software i need its just 10/20 bucks. You can sell few for a high price or sell a lot for a low price. But this is never going to happen anyway.
I will always pirate but back in July I illegally downloaded dungeons and degenerate gamblers from the pirate bay (a Torrent containing the game and the OST supposedly) and I ended up getting the most beautiful piece of malware. Somehow they cloned my chrome password locker and started logging into everything and changing my passwords, they even got my steam account (which didn't have saved credentials on the PC, just logged in). I started getting mails from myself email trying to make me pay for my stuff. I ended up recovering everything but I'm never using Google password manager again and I just Torrent from Linux.
and that's partially why i don't keep so much stuff saved in my thorium... cookies being stolen is already so much. imagine if credit card, crypto wallet, location, all the other stuff that now sites ask nowadays also gets stealen with the cookies... yeah......
The one thing I'm not worried about is anyone getting access to any financial systems. They all require a second factor to authenticate. Credit cards use temporary security codes.
Wish someone taught me this way back when. I can't tell u how messed up my old vista pc got and i had to reload the whole damn thing all over. N it wasn't like today. It took an entire day to set up fully. Still have that dell 630i with 2 4850s in crossfire
That's why you only download well seeded stuff from private and/or reputable torrent trackers. If there's anything suspicious, chances are there will be people in the comments warning others about it.
@@Notaalt-r8e unluckily for big channels, they have to specifically state that they are against piracy, endermanch did show how to obtain a key for windows 95 by exploiting how the code is made, and youtube still took it down as "promoting piracy"
If you don't know what your doing then don't. If you do & have the hardware to do it then create a vm with a snapshot. Isolate it in your network with a vlan & make sure you don't do anything else on this vm. As soon as your done then rollback to the snapshot when done. There are vm escapes but they are rare enough i probably wouldn't worry.
@@pudicus2 sure go ahead and get all your accounts comprised. Let them take over your bank accounts, ect... I know what i'm doing & have yet to have anyone compromise any of my accounts.
I think the worst part about these od that when a crack works, the people will use them again, and their reasoning is "why would it be a hack if it works?" While there is actually no correlation between on and the other.
I fully support piracy because I honestly don't belive that culture should cost money. With that being said, while I used to download cracked versions of software or games I don't do that anymore, mostly because the software I was pirating was actualy good and todays software is not worth the effort, I found that open source alternatives already offer me more than I want, I would rather donate to an open source initative than pay adobe or microsoft any money. In my books piracy is ok, this is how most video editors learned to edit or how graphic designers started
Yo pienso que mientras no sea para uso comercial, debería de tener una versión gratuita y que este completa, sin limitantes, pero si queremos usarlo para uso comercial, podríamos generar ganancias y por lo tanto si interesaría comprar la licencia
@user-ve2yz9ne9g obviously commercial use is something else to personal use. I'm not saying that the free version should be available but it shouldn't be illegal to crack it or to reverse engineer it
Its kind of sad because these days even after you pay for software you might have to install things like DRMs and anticheats which are by technical definition no different than malwares. So you're getting shot in the foot either way.
What if we run the patch in a windows sandbox or virtual machine and then copy the cracked software (patch applied) to host machine which has an anti virus (kaspersky or bitdefender), and now the folder is detected as clean...? (for a step ahead added a block for the exe in firewall) ? thoughts on this ????
Then most of the cracks will get blocked since cracks themselves are malware even tho they are legitimate. So you ended up whitelisting that malware or disabling AV in order to install it 😂
Kaspersky System Watcher will block it. It blocked a False Positive Trojan Generic detection on an exe from an official source which updates the device firmware. They immediately locked my system, deleted the exe and initiated a system wide disinfection along with a full scan.
Run the crack in a virtual machine. Extract the patched file to the active system after patching has been done. If for whatever reason you don't have any alternative methods. I strongly advise not to pirate small application developers.
Been pirating my whole life from russian torrents and never had an issue. Tried some english website once to download two different versions of one game. One of them gave me a trojan😐
I use freeware that's close to Adobe I suppose, but I haven't used a cracked copy of their products since like CC 2016 or something earlier also idk I remember the Word/Office used to be a popular one but I also replaced that with freeware. Plenty of freeware that will do edits just fine. Also 🐧.
As far as I know, yes and no. Usually malware inside a video file is only effective if it's exploiting a vulnerability of your media player of choice. Secure media players will just ignore that payload, or rather, the malware part. If you take the good practice of always keeping software up-to-date, and not download from sketchy websites, you shouldn't worry too much.
If you use popular media player like VLC chances of geting hacked/exploited is low cuz this type of exploits are really hard to find and every one of them is too expensive to use on random file uploaded to internet. If you are not super popular crypto investor that can be targeted in direct attack there is nothing to worry about... but it's possible. If you really want you can always spin vm or docker container of VLC.
I keep seeing black flicker of what seems like cmd on my screen. Is that a malware. Nothing detects it. Not even Norton. It's very constant and don't know if it's really Microsoft's screenshotting things [but I'm on windows 10]. Please inform/clarify the basics to the possibilities. :(
@@tanmaypanadi1414 That's it? I definitely can't do that. Got too much work as is to focus on. I need a software or a system checker to see what's flickering my CMD.
I had to isolate my computer to be able to use this kind of software. My PC doesn't connect to the internet and it doesn't have anything just my work that I design.
i Only get media from torrents (allegedly;) never ever executables. also double, triple check the extensions of all the files...... its sometimes a .mp4.exe etc
I have premium av. It will sometimes delete a software without warning. So I don’t trust the ones that recommends to disable your AV. They might be false positives but we are not sure. For games it is always safe for me. I only problems with software. Maybe adobe themselves is putting those virus to force people to buy their products.
I thought this video was going to detail something insane like an exploit that could compromise you simply by opening a torrent. I'm sure soon enough that will be a reality, though with how very secure Windows is.
As long as you only download video and music you don't have much to worry about. But if you download random .exe files from the internet that's a different matter.
Bro pls help how to setup a lab environment like you so i can test the application and do everything you do with internet connection enabled in vm because every godamn youtube video and article mentions you need to turn off the internet connection
Well you DON'T have to disable it, it's a vm after all,i recommend using LTSC (Long Term Support Commercial) Windows,which doesn't have the bloat, use something like Virtual box or QEMU and make sure you have a powerful PC for great performance, create a snapshot of how the system was at the start
Can you make a video showing how to create a separate partition in your Windows machine so that you could install whatever you want in it and if it happens to be malware you could just format everything and start from scratch without losing anything and without having the other partition with all your data/files infected?
If you are going to do all that, much easier to use a disposable VM for all your browsing, but I'm not going to pretend me or anybody I know wants to use their computer like that.
@@pcsecuritychannelso if I use the VM to gain access to the Cracked Software, without the risk of it infecting my machine, how do I get the file I made in that cracked software to my actual Computer? Once I close the VM (Virtual Machine) the cracked software is gone but so is my file no? How do I keep the file?
@@pcsecuritychannel what if someone had 2 Drives with 2 Separate OS's on each drive and Dual boot it? one is for General use and another One for this sort of illegal stuffs and test? what would Happen? will it be better and Safer? can one use one drive with OS for illegal Stuffs and will not have any Account Associated with that OS, only Pirated stuffs, no online activity. will he be safe? one OS is for Accounts and Legal Use/Purchase and another OS on a Separate Drive for Pirated Stuffs? Lot Of our Computers Does not Meet The Minimum Requirements For Win 11. Support for Win 10 is about end next year. In Low income Country like ours We Have to Spend Our Money Carefully. thats why we Planned to do this sort of Stuffs to Keep Ourselves Safe. Life is Hard. Besides we dont want to Produce E-waste. our Machine is Completely Functional.
if one is for non-sensitive stuff and the other is for everything that matters, it should be safe as long as the drive is unplugged, and of course make sure you trust everything you take from the other system (documents, executables, etc) making sure they aren't infected.
At 50 seconds it looks normal, at 1 minute it does not. I assume the recording is just framed well and you are just looking at edge. One I have used before though is "Floorp Browser" which is firefox but has some extra settings and themes to make it look like edge.
@@GabrielVilanova-n3p well a VM doesn't just magically make your device immune, and that other laptop better not ever connect to any of your other devices, whether wired, through a flash drive transfer, or even being connected to the same internet connection then. The safest practice is literally just to not pirate.
@@Kairi5431 Idk if I'm just lucky or what, but I've been doing that for decades and have never been hacked... maybe I am too cautious. But yes, the safest practice yet, is to use legitimate software.
@@AC-tn9hgWell, that's the whole point of it isn't it? If the prices for SW were reasonable very few would pirate. But when some of the prices are through the roof (like for CAD sw, etc) people have to resort to this untill they are able to pay for it. And many gladly will at a certain point.
This is a very good and lightweight antivirus. "Silent" work, automatic rules. A good heuristic and sandbox, it literally checks what exactly the application is doing and therefore you have a minimum of false positives. Definitely in the top 3 best. As far as I know, its free version also has a firewall. So even the free version is very good, the best option for foreigners.
How to identify that Autocad or Civil 3D, are hacked or are using patch, keygen, or activator. We downloaded 1 for testing, and no antivirus caught activator as one person could find out they get hacked.
thought experiment: if i would download a torrent crack that is over the maximum filesize of VirusTotal (650MB) what is the best way to see if it contains malicoius contents?
if you download app scan with premium AV software and it has no detection. can it have malware when you install the app/software via repack? does blocking exe file via firewall help?
One question, How do you login with bitwarden extension and Virus total account in the VM while executing the virus? Don’t you fear it would steal these credentials? Thanks
And... Use it for what, exactly? To gain access to your account and confirm that it's being detected? So, simply use a unique password along with multi-factor auth, and then rotate your password on a clean system immediately following the evaluation. In other words, practice good op sec, generally. Bruh! Do you even watch this TH-cam channel?
I downloaded a cracked game a long time ago(like 3+ years ago). Than deleted it after a few minits of playing it. I now have cmd flashing several times a day. This has ben happening for about 8 months. How long tell you notice you're being attacked ?
Thanks for the video. It detects a crack/patch/keygen and you decide to run it anyway. What about after the fact detection? Does it still detect something?
What about running it inside the sandbox and then copy paste the installation folder in some other drive than C. Becomes a portable version without admin rights
Safe for me. The softwares are the most dangerous one because only people with job will use those. Games? The don’t care about the info and credit card of a teen downloading a pirated game. For decades im using those with no issue. I only got a virus from my friend’s external hdd. Fitgirl is more safe than my friend for sure.
To be fair, Adobe software drains your bank account over time when it isn't cracked too.
LOL exactly. By pirating them you take the risk, but by subscribing to them it's guaranteed.
@@Echomemes source depend bro and yeah if you have money then but real
@@leonidas14775 yeah same crack works better
You can't even use anything Adobe anymore without having to sign into Creative Cloud, I wish I knew a workaround, because I miss having Photoshop.
and made whole Flash EOL because of inability to properly maintain it's security. pathetic dudes
"Trusted pirate" isn't an oxymoron, because there is really awesome trusted pirates out there.
And those are the people who provided malware free software for years.
Example?
@@shuvohira5979 Razor 1911, among many others
@@shuvohira5979 If you are into gaming, Fitgirl.
@@shuvohira5979 FitGirl
he's right, because there are plenty of trusted sites and crackers who have turned malicious, so you cannot bet your life on these anonymous people
Your mentioning of recall made me smile. I don’t think anyone with an inkling of real world security has asked for it, or copilot. Both scare me because of their obvious security risks.
I'm fine with copilot, as long as its running on a microsoft owned server far far away and not my PC>
@@leonidas14775 Agreed. I have CP and RC turned off in policy settings using ShutUpWindows10. As a note; the latest features update to win11 turned things back on again that I'd turned off - so be warned that Microsoft will try to be shifty about Recall and Copilot. I don't know why they're trying to ram these things down our collective throats, but it's really making me reconsider using Microsoft products for any daily driver other than gaming.
Who has enough power to instruct Microsoft to implement this?
Just be more aware of what you download, and download from trusted, reputable sources.
this is not always working. Do not forget when CCleaner website was hacked and installer replaced with malicious version.
Yeah use the megathread then you are good and only choose the goat
@@zulhakimhafizibinmohdzulke4581 That one girl that's fit came in clutch throughout my broke teenage years
Ok no Problem on windows 20000 malicious dll for you
#smurtboy
Problem with cracks are how they get flagged just for being a crash even if they are safe.
So you don't even know what is or isn't infected.
and then you get totally valid DLL injectors to get a 20+ year old game to run on modern systems being flagged just because you want it to not crash or run like dogshit because 16/32 bit support died a long time ago and/or you want to run a directX to vulkan translation layer and/or shaders
@@themusesquad8554 Why bro don't download blindly from anywhere at first do some research and found the site
If it was detected by only 1 av and it si BkavPro then it is safe, if it is detected by lots of avs including Kaspersky etc then it is infected.
I'm pretty sure AV software gets paid to flag those files as a scare tactic.
@@karolstopinski8350Not really. AV/EDR/Sandbox software doesn't check if malware is *actually* bad because it's hard to define what "bad" means. They only look for symptoms and common exploit behaviors. Which is totally what many cracks, trainers, mods, dll injectors do (for legit reasons). AV doesn't know that it's "ethical exploit" doing some kind of exploitation that user expects it to do. Malware detecting systems are simple creatures - they see something "sus", they flag it. You know it's like browser extension that reads your cookies - behavioral AV analysis will say it steals your data. But it may be just some fancy auto-login extension or any other thing that legitimately uses your cookies for good reason. I mean just look at Skyrim SKSE - it totally behaves like full fledged malware lol
I did a deep dive into those 'reputable sources' on piracy threads for software. I cracked the exact version of some programs to see how different they really are. It took time to reverse engineer, but it wasn’t too hard, patched for full functionality and all the paid features. Comparing it to different group releases, I found some with tons of obfuscated code, packed executables, anti-debugging anti-VM tricks, certificate pinning, Some releases were clean, but most people wouldn't know better than to grab the first one that pops up
As you mentioned most people wouldn't be able to do that, and as leo mentioned in the video/comments all it takes is these people deciding to release one malicious crack after getting people into a habit of just trusting them and running without precautions to completely ruin a lot of computers or steal a lot of information.
The safest way to pirate is to just not pirate, but a lot of people feel like they're entitled to whatever game or software they want and pirate it because why would they ever pay for it, or stuff like oh I hate denuvo and won't buy it but I'm still entitled to it so I'll pirate it.
The saddest part is a lot of pirates do buy the games that actually interest them, but then you have pirates who think they're entitled to whatever they want going "if they rerelease it I'll buy it" or "if they remove denuvo I'll buy it", but when it happens they don't and when called out either stay silent or go " it's too expensive for 10 year old roms" or "why would I pay for something I can get for free". I don't agree with piracy, but at least many actually pay for the software they enjoy if it's available to the public for purchase, but then you have people like this making it seem like pirates just all want free stuff.
@@Kairi5431in my opinion "freeloaders" are the minority. People would rather use good service when it's available (like steam). Of course there is a small group of people that you describe that exist but they will exist no matter what. On the other end there are people who will buy even shitty service no matter what. But in the middle there is this undecided group of people that can do one of these depending on the circumstances. And with enshitification of streaming like netflix or content creation like adobe people start to trust the companies less in the quality of their service (because it's predatory) and tend to pirate more.
I feel like piracy was much more of a thing in like 2000s, then it started to decline with actually good services and now with the enshitification it's on the rise again.
There will still be a small group that will pirate everything. There are some reasons for that like age or income, but if the person is older from 1st world country then it's quite questionable.
lets be honest pirats are often kids that dont have the financial freedom to buy software that is thousands of dollars a year, those kids might be naive, but they still are doing creative work with adobe or things like fusion360@@Kairi5431
is there a good guide on how to do that stuff? i only know basic RE and cracked a couple apps b4
Those measures are there because AV false flags all cracks
Piracy megathread is your best friend, as a student I didn't have money to buy photoshop. Wacatac trojan is the most common false positive with cracks.
Do you mean the one on reddit?
@@handysetiawan8981 yep
@@handysetiawan8981 yup, the one in r/piracy.
@@handysetiawan8981 there's the reddit version and the fmhy version, both are the same.
Thank you for being one of the best channels for niche security tips like these! You're a real hero!
yeah only the best ones will recommend a russian anti-virus lmfao
As a somewhat season eastern eutopean pirate (don't do it as much anymore) I think it's more important to know WHERE rather than WHAT, some common sense always helps and, of course, nothing is ever 100% safe but I managed to get malware/adware/whatever (that I saw, lol) on my machince only 2 or 3 times over 16+ years of occasionally pirating things
Solution: Have 2 computers. One for your pirated software, and a different one with no pirated software. Don't enter any information/passwords into the first one that has value to a cybercriminal.
if it can connect to your network it can still do damage to your other machines
Or... Dual boot with OS level encrypted partitions; not SED. Then, you'll mainly only have to worry about bootkits (as opposed to rootkits), which are becoming ever more common, as well. Just don't use the same password for the disk encryption that is used for something else the virus might gain access to, and sufficiently long and complex enough. I mean, you still have to practice good op sec, anyways. Of course, it could still install a rootkit onto the boot volume of the other OS, which is why you might store the boot volume on a detachable storage media, like a thumb drive, and only insert it while booting the safe environment. Although, if your test environment is Windows and your safe environment is Linux, then your boot volume would reside on a file system the Windows OS can't read, anyways. In that case, I suppose they could put something in the UEFI partition, but that's not as easy since it's supposed to be hidden from the OS. The risk of a media player program being exploitable in a way which could provide access to these protected areas of the system are fairly remote.
Maybe just install it in a VM and configure the network config correctly or just remove the internet from the vm if that app doesn't need it which is usually the case@@TheChadXperience909
Can you just use VM for "oh crap I just need to use this cracked piece of software for one time real quick" instead of second PC?
@@АндрэйБараноўскі Do you really have to ask? In that case, I'd find a different YT channel to watch.
It was a good decision years ago to switch into FOSS and don't bother with cracking software - especially in the times when viruses aren't those funny popups telling you to delete System32 manually, or flood your drive with b0rn in worse case - anymore
Its more like trusted uploaders vs pirates, its a way to tell folks this user has uploaded for years malware free software. Its not a guarantee its a summary of their history on the platform.
Even than folks still check for themselves, pirates value good security software too. If someone has years of documented work uploading clean software, the upload is a few weeks old, and major antivirus software say its safe (along with virus total) it's reasonally safe software.
Its really not that complicated, the first rule is to trust no one. Even than it doesn't mean "trusted" uploaders are safe, it's just a proven track record vs some random uploaded you have never heard of.
tldr:
some people shouldn't be trusted and some of those should not never, ever be trusted.
One thing you have very wrong is "and major antivirus software say its safe" that has nothing to do with how safe a program is. Good hackers know how to make malware fully undetected.
@@rawbmar1166
"the upload is a few weeks old, and major antivirus software say its safe (along with virus total) it's reasonally safe software."
FOR games it is safe if you download from trusted uploaders.
That is why this guy uses a software.
Hackers will not bother to waste time building reputation and stole from poor teen gamer.
Only those working/professional people who uses adobe is worth the effort.
As if "trusted" vendors dont use cracks to their own software, when they them-selves lose source code, or even stooped supporting a program, for SO long "CD" cracks become the only way to use said program. One assumes quite incorrectly vendors cheek before releasing, but as many who look into the exe know scene groups name "tags" are still their, leaving one to wonder what else is just left their. Example: Rockstar
Wow does that really happen? What other companies have you noticed doing this
@@MilkManCaravan Nintendo, they keep getting caught using roms online. Rom-groups use the header say who the up-loader is, Nintendo latter tried remove and hide it but found out they also place it somewhere in the middle, so other rom-groups cant just take out the header and claim it as their upload.
All mega companies are hypocrite and Nintendo fan-boys defend this claiming "it's their roms in the first place" which is not true. The same way it's illegal download/make a copy of somebody else back up doesn't entitle Nintendo to that persons copy. Nintendo breaking the law in the same way as other who download roms.
@@JorgeLopez-qj8pu thats insane and incredibly hypocritical
Everything is a skill, pirating too. You just gotta learn how to do it safey and where are the safe sites.
The best thing to do is reading a lot about certain pages security, and never download from sites with tons of shorteners.
what are "shorteners"?
@@ShockSmile Short URLs like this.that/123 that takes you to another short.url/456 that takes you to another and another and finally the download page
@@ShockSmileI could be wrong, but I think they're talking about link shorteners like adfly
@@bcj842 yeah those nested shortener sites where you click on one and it brings to another, and another. Sometimes, most of the time, the endgame is not giving you malware but profitting from ads where at the end there's just smoke. Think about it, if they want to infect you with malware it'd be counterproductive to make it harder for you to download the file.
In regards to trusted uploaders and their safety, I agree with you. While there are many uploaders and scene groups that are considered trusted, the chance that they could inject malicious code into their releases is never 0%. At any point they could do so, and many pirates wouldn’t realize until it’s too late or someone tells people about it.
That’s just a risk you have to take when pirating. While they may have a clean track record, never put 100% trust in them. Always analyze the release when downloading it. Test it in a VM, an isolated bare metal machine, whatever you have to do.
Even after all that, if the scene group injected malware, you could still get infected. That’s just the risk of doing this sort of thing, but it’s a risk pirates are willing to take every time they use pirated content. It’s all about reducing the risk as much as possible despite knowing it will never be 100% secure.
Malware in torrents is definitely not something new, and I would also argue is not necessarily on the rise, maybe it is just being noticed more. Malware injected files hosted on sharing platforms like torrents has been happening since early Napster days and more often than not, are put there by people connected to the companies that are selling the "pirated" software.
I got hacked once. I was just looking for some android utility tools. My email, facebook, telegram all were compromised. But luckily I was able to regain access and I formatted my whole laptop.
Actually the Recall feature is crazy for storing all the screenshots in plain files.
Are you sure about that? Could you provide technical details which demonstrate your claim?
@@TheChadXperience909 do a TH-cam search, big technical and security TH-camrs covered it
It’s a great motivator to learn forensic analysis of files. Coincidentally, it’s a big part of what I’m learning right now. 😊
If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing.
i never understood the purpose of this line tbh
@@strob5657 well these days for some games and software you don't actually buy the product,you only buy the license to those products and the company can just remove your access very easily,one example will be Ubisoft,so you don't actually "own" what you pay for
@mszuala no no not like that, I mean in what way does buying the right to access a product justify a moral right to steal the property you're getting access to. It's awful that you don't own the games yes and I do condone piracy but theft is theft and there's no real value in calling it otherwise
@@strob5657 did you know: whenever you buy a game on Steam, they can cancel your account and the game is gone? This is because you didn't buy the game, in fact just just bought the temporary right to play the game.
@moweME yeah I heard about the legal mess that happened. Kinda silly how the consumer ends up getting screwed LMAO
That’s very useful. I didn’t know that some venders will actually tell you what’s going on instead of just telling you to stop
The real way to fight piracy is to lower the prices to be accessible to more people. I mean, I wont risk to be hacked if the software i need its just 10/20 bucks.
You can sell few for a high price or sell a lot for a low price.
But this is never going to happen anyway.
Also need to solve the problems around weird region locks. Like why can I buy Jurassic Park book on Kindle in the US, but not on the Kindle in the UK?
I will always pirate but back in July I illegally downloaded dungeons and degenerate gamblers from the pirate bay (a Torrent containing the game and the OST supposedly) and I ended up getting the most beautiful piece of malware. Somehow they cloned my chrome password locker and started logging into everything and changing my passwords, they even got my steam account (which didn't have saved credentials on the PC, just logged in). I started getting mails from myself email trying to make me pay for my stuff. I ended up recovering everything but I'm never using Google password manager again and I just Torrent from Linux.
and that's partially why i don't keep so much stuff saved in my thorium... cookies being stolen is already so much. imagine if credit card, crypto wallet, location, all the other stuff that now sites ask nowadays also gets stealen with the cookies... yeah......
Very good video. I always run everything in a VM with no Internet access. Not sure if that’s the smartest way to go about it but that’s all I’ve got.
Yup even better and sandbox in a VM, setting up a VM can be some work so better lazy than tired.
The one thing I'm not worried about is anyone getting access to any financial systems. They all require a second factor to authenticate. Credit cards use temporary security codes.
2FA is never a guarantee
Simple: keep the machine offline or at most on a subnet w/o internet access. That is the price.
Wish someone taught me this way back when. I can't tell u how messed up my old vista pc got and i had to reload the whole damn thing all over. N it wasn't like today. It took an entire day to set up fully. Still have that dell 630i with 2 4850s in crossfire
Wow crossfire, good ol' days
@topg2820 I still have that dell all aluminum PC . Should still work too😁 running vista. Last it ran far cry3 above 50fps
@@dmo848 that's nice to know, they were built different back then
That's why you only download well seeded stuff from private and/or reputable torrent trackers. If there's anything suspicious, chances are there will be people in the comments warning others about it.
I love how he is also not promoting piracy and is against it but also telling us how to stay safe just thought I'd comment on that
well he wouldn’t want to break TOS
@Graahk-r8u considering how many videos are on TH-cam about piracy I don't think it would have mattered
@@Notaalt-r8e unluckily for big channels, they have to specifically state that they are against piracy, endermanch did show how to obtain a key for windows 95 by exploiting how the code is made, and youtube still took it down as "promoting piracy"
@@Firespecialstar yeah. louis rossman and LTT are other great examples
I sense Nintendo simp fanboy 🫥🤔
If you don't know what your doing then don't. If you do & have the hardware to do it then create a vm with a snapshot. Isolate it in your network with a vlan & make sure you don't do anything else on this vm. As soon as your done then rollback to the snapshot when done. There are vm escapes but they are rare enough i probably wouldn't worry.
If they escape the VM they deserve my data 😂
@@mik3lang3lo 😜
This is a shit take. Everyone learns by doing something they don’t know how to at some point.
@@pudicus2 sure go ahead and get all your accounts comprised. Let them take over your bank accounts, ect... I know what i'm doing & have yet to have anyone compromise any of my accounts.
@@mik3lang3lo everyone have your data bro what do u think google provide you free service
I miss Kaspersky so much!
+15 rub, comrade!
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Love seeing the Bitwarden browser plug in!
Great video, as always. I wish I could have seen this a few minutes ago lmao.
rip
I think the worst part about these od that when a crack works, the people will use them again, and their reasoning is "why would it be a hack if it works?" While there is actually no correlation between on and the other.
What the hackers don't know, I wouldn't crack software if I would have a credit card lol
I fully support piracy because I honestly don't belive that culture should cost money. With that being said, while I used to download cracked versions of software or games I don't do that anymore, mostly because the software I was pirating was actualy good and todays software is not worth the effort, I found that open source alternatives already offer me more than I want, I would rather donate to an open source initative than pay adobe or microsoft any money.
In my books piracy is ok, this is how most video editors learned to edit or how graphic designers started
Yo pienso que mientras no sea para uso comercial, debería de tener una versión gratuita y que este completa, sin limitantes, pero si queremos usarlo para uso comercial, podríamos generar ganancias y por lo tanto si interesaría comprar la licencia
@user-ve2yz9ne9g obviously commercial use is something else to personal use. I'm not saying that the free version should be available but it shouldn't be illegal to crack it or to reverse engineer it
@@Stef.Cata051 pero la ingeniería inversa y el crackear deberían verse más bien como por ejemplo, para pruebas de hacking ético
what defines "culture"? just say you're stealing it, you sound less ridiculous
I mean, in a perfect magic fantasy land yeah, but we don't live there and things cost money to make
0:07 Ah yes, the student who can't afford JetBrains at the ridiculously high cost of... Uh... Free?
Only stick to megathread you are good as
Which one?
@heyjohnsmith Fitgirl and Dodi
I'd personally recommend free media heck yeah for an up to date megathread!
I love this guy so much it's unreal.
Nice to see Kaspersky
Honestly, both the corps and pirates can be nefarious these days😂
*You got one side who are against pirates then you got the other side who are for pirates even some youtubers endorse pirate actions*
Its kind of sad because these days even after you pay for software you might have to install things like DRMs and anticheats which are by technical definition no different than malwares. So you're getting shot in the foot either way.
“DRM's” no different than malware? What do you mean?
@@arvaneret_329 Modern anti-cheats log your keypresses, so god forbid you actually type sensitive info while having Valorant in background or stuff
What if we run the patch in a windows sandbox or virtual machine and then copy the cracked software (patch applied) to host machine which has an anti virus (kaspersky or bitdefender), and now the folder is detected as clean...? (for a step ahead added a block for the exe in firewall) ? thoughts on this ????
Why's the Fox made out of Steel? Doesn't seem like a very agile material.
3:50 not my cookiesssss😢
Don't blame all torrent trackers. Download from trusted ones and you'll be fine. No, I don't mean the pirates bay.
what if you had an real time AV like kaspeesky?
so you won't crack your thing
There's always a way or a workaround, unfortunately
Then most of the cracks will get blocked since cracks themselves are malware even tho they are legitimate. So you ended up whitelisting that malware or disabling AV in order to install it 😂
Kaspersky System Watcher will block it.
It blocked a False Positive Trojan Generic detection on an exe from an official source which updates the device firmware. They immediately locked my system, deleted the exe and initiated a system wide disinfection along with a full scan.
Kaspersky is spyware by itself
Pirated Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has a weird activator
Run the crack in a virtual machine. Extract the patched file to the active system after patching has been done. If for whatever reason you don't have any alternative methods. I strongly advise not to pirate small application developers.
Been pirating my whole life from russian torrents and never had an issue. Tried some english website once to download two different versions of one game. One of them gave me a trojan😐
Same here
Back your data up regularly, or store them at a safe spsce, and you're pretty much set
thanks for the heads up.
RIP Demonoid
I use freeware that's close to Adobe I suppose, but I haven't used a cracked copy of their products since like CC 2016 or something earlier also idk I remember the Word/Office used to be a popular one but I also replaced that with freeware. Plenty of freeware that will do edits just fine. Also 🐧.
Yeah it suck. I had to reinstal my windows today because there a virus or torjan in my cracked cod:world at war😪. Be carefull when pirating guys
Where did you download it?
Can Malware be inside movies in type of files like .mp4 or .mkv?
yes, it can even be on the website or streaming service by just visiting. Use a virtual machine and watch the movies on there.
@@superkoopatrooper4879 no way 🤯
As far as I know, yes and no. Usually malware inside a video file is only effective if it's exploiting a vulnerability of your media player of choice. Secure media players will just ignore that payload, or rather, the malware part. If you take the good practice of always keeping software up-to-date, and not download from sketchy websites, you shouldn't worry too much.
Unlikely
If you use popular media player like VLC chances of geting hacked/exploited is low cuz this type of exploits are really hard to find and every one of them is too expensive to use on random file uploaded to internet. If you are not super popular crypto investor that can be targeted in direct attack there is nothing to worry about... but it's possible.
If you really want you can always spin vm or docker container of VLC.
I keep seeing black flicker of what seems like cmd on my screen. Is that a malware. Nothing detects it. Not even Norton. It's very constant and don't know if it's really Microsoft's screenshotting things [but I'm on windows 10]. Please inform/clarify the basics to the possibilities. :(
format and reinstall windows if its truly a cause of concern.
@@tanmaypanadi1414 That's it? I definitely can't do that. Got too much work as is to focus on. I need a software or a system checker to see what's flickering my CMD.
Does it say it's from "HP PC Hardware Diagnostics"?
Check the windows logs in command center when it happens. You'll likely find what happened.
You can view everything in Autoruns, but it requires some knowledge
Spend the money you save on subscriptions for a cheap financial only laptop. Only use it for primary email, fianancial accounts and online purchases.
I had to isolate my computer to be able to use this kind of software. My PC doesn't connect to the internet and it doesn't have anything just my work that I design.
i Only get media from torrents (allegedly;)
never ever executables. also double, triple check the extensions of all the files...... its sometimes a .mp4.exe etc
In case you are using cracks, better install a licensed antivirus… it adds a layer of safety and obviously performs much better than windows defender
I have premium av. It will sometimes delete a software without warning. So I don’t trust the ones that recommends to disable your AV.
They might be false positives but we are not sure.
For games it is always safe for me. I only problems with software. Maybe adobe themselves is putting those virus to force people to buy their products.
Ok, the like/dislike button being highlighted when you said that at 4:55 was a bit creepy
TH-cam feature. Same for the subscribe button.
I thought this video was going to detail something insane like an exploit that could compromise you simply by opening a torrent. I'm sure soon enough that will be a reality, though with how very secure Windows is.
Can u check "tron virus removal"
As long as you only download video and music you don't have much to worry about. But if you download random .exe files from the internet that's a different matter.
It makes you think!
Bro pls help how to setup a lab environment like you so i can test the application and do everything you do with internet connection enabled in vm because every godamn youtube video and article mentions you need to turn off the internet connection
Well you DON'T have to disable it, it's a vm after all,i recommend using LTSC (Long Term Support Commercial) Windows,which doesn't have the bloat, use something like Virtual box or QEMU and make sure you have a powerful PC for great performance, create a snapshot of how the system was at the start
If you must run it, run it in VM and get your job done there in the place where you don't store anything
Can you make a video showing how to create a separate partition in your Windows machine so that you could install whatever you want in it and if it happens to be malware you could just format everything and start from scratch without losing anything and without having the other partition with all your data/files infected?
If you are going to do all that, much easier to use a disposable VM for all your browsing, but I'm not going to pretend me or anybody I know wants to use their computer like that.
@pcsecuritychannel VM?
@@Lickzalot virtual machine.
@@pcsecuritychannelso if I use the VM to gain access to the Cracked Software, without the risk of it infecting my machine, how do I get the file I made in that cracked software to my actual Computer? Once I close the VM (Virtual Machine) the cracked software is gone but so is my file no? How do I keep the file?
@@pcsecuritychannel what if someone had 2 Drives with 2 Separate OS's on each drive and Dual boot it? one is for General use and another One for this sort of illegal stuffs and test? what would Happen? will it be better and Safer? can one use one drive with OS for illegal Stuffs and will not have any Account Associated with that OS, only Pirated stuffs, no online activity. will he be safe? one OS is for Accounts and Legal Use/Purchase and another OS on a Separate Drive for Pirated Stuffs? Lot Of our Computers Does not Meet The Minimum Requirements For Win 11. Support for Win 10 is about end next year. In Low income Country like ours We Have to Spend Our Money Carefully. thats why we Planned to do this sort of Stuffs to Keep Ourselves Safe. Life is Hard. Besides we dont want to Produce E-waste. our Machine is Completely Functional.
What if i dual boot with different drive? So one drive is for torrent programs but the other is for normal usage to give airgap the system
i also like to know more about this.
if one is for non-sensitive stuff and the other is for everything that matters, it should be safe as long as the drive is unplugged, and of course make sure you trust everything you take from the other system (documents, executables, etc) making sure they aren't infected.
Hey sir which AV u are using now?
Man, the last time i got virus and malware is because i knowingly download and run infected file. So dumb 😂😂
@@JoRoBoYo at least try to search about the site
@@animeworld2005 i know it is infected. 😂.
Awesome video as always Leo!
dude why does your firefox's UI look like edge browser ? and brother thanks making this video it's enlightening !
That's defaults Firefox
At 50 seconds it looks normal, at 1 minute it does not. I assume the recording is just framed well and you are just looking at edge. One I have used before though is "Floorp Browser" which is firefox but has some extra settings and themes to make it look like edge.
No, I don’t know anything about computer viruses, Yes, I stayed because there was a Roronoa Zoro concept Jolly Roger in the thumbnail
Nice video, especially the recommendation to use russian anti-virus. That is just swell
I stopped using pirated software a long time ago for reasons like this.
I'd rather pay a reasonable fee for secure and good software than risk my entire bank account and data being stolen or compromised.
just use a vm or a separate laptop if in doubt
@@GabrielVilanova-n3p well a VM doesn't just magically make your device immune, and that other laptop better not ever connect to any of your other devices, whether wired, through a flash drive transfer, or even being connected to the same internet connection then. The safest practice is literally just to not pirate.
@@Kairi5431 Idk if I'm just lucky or what, but I've been doing that for decades and have never been hacked... maybe I am too cautious. But yes, the safest practice yet, is to use legitimate software.
@@AC-tn9hgWell, that's the whole point of it isn't it?
If the prices for SW were reasonable very few would pirate.
But when some of the prices are through the roof (like for CAD sw, etc) people have to resort to this untill they are able to pay for it. And many gladly will at a certain point.
Honestly, I'm way too paranoid over things like this to be a pirate.
That's precisely what the scam artists running the software companies are counting on! Your fear is exactly what empowers them.
Can you create a video to test if Kaspersky is still usable in the United States?
Now end of 2024years we wanna see best Antivirus home version or best endpoint security vs 3000 latest malware compared to what different for lines
How really you trust Kaspersky?
Speaking as someone who used to work for Avast tech support.
This is a very good and lightweight antivirus. "Silent" work, automatic rules. A good heuristic and sandbox, it literally checks what exactly the application is doing and therefore you have a minimum of false positives. Definitely in the top 3 best. As far as I know, its free version also has a firewall. So even the free version is very good, the best option for foreigners.
Just a quick note - jet brains is free for students 😊
How to identify that Autocad or Civil 3D, are hacked or are using patch, keygen, or activator. We downloaded 1 for testing, and no antivirus caught activator as one person could find out they get hacked.
Maybe a dumb question but can you get a virus by using Torentio on streamIO?
thought experiment: if i would download a torrent crack that is over the maximum filesize of VirusTotal (650MB) what is the best way to see if it contains malicoius contents?
Bloated executable is not that common, but they exist. Try to zip it and it would be small
Obviously, you probably shouldn't, unless you're a professional and really know what you're doing.
You're such an Inspiration.
One is a 5 50/50 getting a malware and the other is guaranteed, I like my chances.
if you download app scan with premium AV software and it has no detection. can it have malware when you install the app/software via repack? does blocking exe file via firewall help?
Thats why i only torrent movies, shows, anime, audiobooks, comics, and Epub books.
One question, How do you login with bitwarden extension and Virus total account in the VM while executing the virus?
Don’t you fear it would steal these credentials?
Thanks
And... Use it for what, exactly? To gain access to your account and confirm that it's being detected? So, simply use a unique password along with multi-factor auth, and then rotate your password on a clean system immediately following the evaluation. In other words, practice good op sec, generally.
Bruh! Do you even watch this TH-cam channel?
best way to fix it would be to compartmentalize, use a PC for the pirate* softwares
I downloaded a cracked game a long time ago(like 3+ years ago). Than deleted it after a few minits of playing it. I now have cmd flashing several times a day. This has ben happening for about 8 months. How long tell you notice you're being attacked ?
Thanks for the video. It detects a crack/patch/keygen and you decide to run it anyway. What about after the fact detection? Does it still detect something?
but if I don t get any detections on virus total? when I go to behave section it still say like mitre attack or others things but it say is safe
@@loryt690 manytime you got when uploading software but check the vendors many time detect it false positive
Stick to the well known uploaders and you're good 99% of the time.
what if the torrent has many seeders, not that much would be carrying viruses, right?
What about running it inside the sandbox and then copy paste the installation folder in some other drive than C. Becomes a portable version without admin rights
for a lot of things, that works well, though still make sure you trust what it installs as sometimes it's not just the setup that has bad intentions.
i dont need malware to have info stealers tbh, big corpos have been leading the way for years
What about Fitgirl or Dodi?
Mostly secure if you use their official website
Safe for me. The softwares are the most dangerous one because only people with job will use those.
Games? The don’t care about the info and credit card of a teen downloading a pirated game.
For decades im using those with no issue.
I only got a virus from my friend’s external hdd. Fitgirl is more safe than my friend for sure.