Utorrent Bugs Let Websites Control Your Computer And Steal Your Downloads

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
Tue, 02/20/2018 - 8:47pm

Enlarge / A screenshot of one of the uTorrent PoC exploits in action. (credit: Google Project Zero) Two versions of uTorrent, one of the Internet's most widely used BitTorrent apps, are vulnerable to a host of easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities that allow attackers to execute code, access downloaded files, and snoop on download histories, a Google Project Zero researcher said.

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