Polish security researchers have a strong increase of false lwa tp packets by the p2p client µTorrent used to be. As a potential client of the network poisoning is the contentindustrie called.
The Polish CERT states that it is on his honeypotservers the past few months on a large scale counterfeit µtp packets has been spotted at torrentdownloads that use the udp protocol. According to the researchers, contain the packages fake ip addresses which torrentclients become disordered. The popular client, bittorrent made the first use of the self-developed µtp, can now also clients such as Transmission, Vuze, and Deluge with the protocol from the feet.
The exact source of the counterfeit µtp packets would be difficult to determine the ip addresses of the seeders refer in particular to locations in the USA, Russia, Australia and China. Possible for the network poisoning operations made use of vpn’s or botnets. But it is clear that the method was detected at two Russian films on p2p networks was presented.
The Polish CERT calls the contentindustrie as a possible client for the disrupt of torrentnetwerken. So it was recently announced that Pirate Pay, a Russian start-up that deal of investment money from Microsoft would have received, software has been developed that downloads content through bittorrent could be difficult. Pirate Pay has to say that the dissemination of a recent movie via p2p networks, with some success, opposed.
It is according to the researchers, possible that the technology used to network poisoning is in conflict with the Polish, American and European law because the targeted traffic is trying to disrupt. However, there are still no hard evidence on the table come from the contentindustrie actually paid for the application of this controversial method.