"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.
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
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.
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.
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 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
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
@@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"
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
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 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.
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.
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......
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?
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 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.
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
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
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 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 ????
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.
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.
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
I would like to know how to identify software piracy, even when no antivirus detects them as viruses, we took 1 for testing, and no online antivirus detected them as viruses, and it was an activator.
depends on the program, some activations are really dumb so it's just a reverse-engineered equation to generate a serial key from pure maths. it's pretty typical in older software
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?
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.
I don't use those types of pirated software, but I download roms for MAME and other emulators such as Snes, Ps1, Ps2, etc. I only download the game that I own, of course 😆 My question is... is it possible to get malware from downloading and using those roms?
yup, there was an exploit in a GBA emulator I used to use that allowed for remote code execution. they didn't clamp some variable in some buffer so it would read anything you put into that buffer and execute it or something, can't remember exactly. but yeah, can be worth checking the hash/checksum of a rom you get against multiple sources to verify you got a legit rom if you don't have the ability to dump your own cartridges
It is NOT an oxymoron. If you can't trust a pirate who's been giving cleanest mods for over a decade, on what basis should I trust Microsoft which flushes down bloatwares, AI garbage and uses my laptop I paid money for to collect data from me to show me ads? You might argue Microsoft has a lot to lose in reputation, but I would say they have a much bigger incentive (and resources) to cover their mess ups, rather than to prevent them.
it was opt out even at entreprise level and then the pitchforks came out. now its worded by some executive that its not part of official iso image. but part of azure services that almost all companies use to enable remote LDAP. not a IT personal just someone who loves to sail the high seas.
To be fair, Adobe software drains your bank account over time when it isn't cracked too.
"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
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
Thank you for being one of the best channels for niche security tips like these! You're a real hero!
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
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.
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.
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
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 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
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
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 🫥🤔
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.
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.
Don't blame all torrent trackers. Download from trusted ones and you'll be fine. No, I don't mean the pirates bay.
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
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.
I miss Kaspersky so much!
Actually the Recall feature is crazy for storing all the screenshots in plain files.
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.
Great video, as always. I wish I could have seen this a few minutes ago lmao.
rip
Dude, Kaspersky is a malware itself
I love this guy so much it's unreal.
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.
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......
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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 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 ????
Hey sir which AV u are using now?
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
what about media? Music, TV shows, movie files...
Honestly, I'm way too paranoid over things like this to be a pirate.
Question, you still trust Kaspersky even with all the problems between Russia and US right now? Thanks.
ya why not, its cheap af right now. no brainer, get the cheap fresh licences
It’s known malware, it makes me wonder if he’s getting paid a lot to promote it. Why else would he run an ad for it? Maybe the price was right.
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.
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
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
Dont steal my cookies!!! Get our filthy hand out of my cookie jar!!!
Awesome video as always Leo!
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
Only stick to megathread you are good as
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
Can you point me to a video about how a computer get malware from downloading a movie? Asking for a friend.
You're such an Inspiration.
i love kaspersky thank god I don't live in the USA
what if you ran it and a reputable antivirus like bitdefender or kaspersky blocked it?
there are websites that require malware scans
Can you create a video to test if Kaspersky is still usable in the United States?
Pirating for about 20+ years not proud just saying. Never got Any serious malware on my pcs. You just need to know what you doing.
I would like to know how to identify software piracy, even when no antivirus detects them as viruses, we took 1 for testing, and no online antivirus detected them as viruses, and it was an activator.
depends on the program, some activations are really dumb so it's just a reverse-engineered equation to generate a serial key from pure maths. it's pretty typical in older software
dude why does your firefox's UI look like edge browser ? and brother thanks making this video it's enlightening !
i wish i could still use kaspersky but they switched to the ultraAV bs
Oxymoron? You mean the album?
So download a Hacked Kapersky?
Wasn't Kaspersky banned in the US?
Thank God, I don't use any of these. I am OLD SCHOOL.
Hello, can you pack something nasty in .mkv along side with actual video sequnce?
Thanks for sharing.
Would running scatchy software in sandboxy plus help ?
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?
If you pirate you must play the pc for pirated games no more credit cards.
Just a quick note - jet brains is free for students 😊
As much as I hate Reddit for being circlejerk central, r/piracy and its megathread is very reputable and constantly maintained.
Make a Video About old Mac OS X
Pirated Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has a weird activator
something like this happened half year ago to me maybe try to use similar free apps less risk
Use a virtual machine for dubios apps ‼️
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.
I don't use those types of pirated software, but I download roms for MAME and other emulators such as Snes, Ps1, Ps2, etc. I only download the game that I own, of course 😆
My question is... is it possible to get malware from downloading and using those roms?
yup, there was an exploit in a GBA emulator I used to use that allowed for remote code execution. they didn't clamp some variable in some buffer so it would read anything you put into that buffer and execute it or something, can't remember exactly. but yeah, can be worth checking the hash/checksum of a rom you get against multiple sources to verify you got a legit rom if you don't have the ability to dump your own cartridges
What the hackers don't know, I wouldn't crack software if I would have a credit card lol
Man, the last time i got virus and malware is because i knowingly download and run infected file. So dumb 😂😂
It is NOT an oxymoron. If you can't trust a pirate who's been giving cleanest mods for over a decade, on what basis should I trust Microsoft which flushes down bloatwares, AI garbage and uses my laptop I paid money for to collect data from me to show me ads?
You might argue Microsoft has a lot to lose in reputation, but I would say they have a much bigger incentive (and resources) to cover their mess ups, rather than to prevent them.
Holy crap dude, you really took money from kaspersky ?
This is disappointing.
I can't use Kaspersky....I'm in the US.
too bad
LOL
Recall isn't out plus - it's going to be opt-in! LOL!
it was opt out even at entreprise level and then the pitchforks came out. now its worded by some executive that its not part of official iso image. but part of azure services that almost all companies use to enable remote LDAP. not a IT personal just someone who loves to sail the high seas.
What about Fitgirl or Dodi?
Mostly secure if you use their official website
There are free open source alternatives if you don't want to pay for these softwares.
that why you need 2 computer these days, one for fun and one for serious shit. trusting "trustud sources" for downloading pirate software is stupid af
What are some good torrent sites? ❤
Your trusted pirate 🤣🤣🤣
I just scan my torrent downloads with my Kaspersky, if it doesn't flag the app, It's good for me😅. Haha
Great idea is to run all your dodgy software in a vm
Kaspersky installed Ultra AV. Nope. .nope nope nope. . .nope...nope nope
Using foxit reader to make a stealfox infostealer
its time to buy IDM i guess
Which pirated software website do I trust.
Stick to mega thread
r/piracy megathread and FMHY
just read the piracy megathread guys
But the crack worked? or not?
But was AutoCad cracked? ;-)
You really have no idea of how scene torrent trackers and groups work huh?
Just use pirated software in virtual machine.
never ever has a crack asked for admin rights... you must be torrenting wrong
👍👍👍
people will take trusted names and repack malware with the legit crack also.
Just leaving this here...... TeamOS
🤔 What's a crack? What's a patch?
Info-stealers dream of being Microsoft.
- You will lend us your info and be happy about it!
😅