Reddit Piracy — Megahtread

But the damage was done.

Within an hour, r/StreamingShips was quarantined by Reddit admins. The megathread was deleted, but not before hundreds of users had archived it. The Pastebin link was nuked. The GitHub repo vanished. reddit piracy megahtread

u/RedEyeJedi was its creator. He hadn't posted in three years, but his legend lived on in the thread's edit history. The post was a masterpiece of obfuscation: a plain-text introduction about "digital preservation" followed by a single, unassuming Pastebin link. That link led to a GitHub page. The GitHub page contained a text file named catalog.txt . Inside catalog.txt were twelve lines of Base64 code. But the damage was done

"I ran the Belarus .exe in an air-gapped machine with a custom packet sniffer. It doesn't just report back your IP. It scans your local network for mounted network drives, SMB shares, and connected backup devices. Then it catalogs every file with the following extensions: .pdf, .doc, .xls, .mkv, .mp4, .iso, .rar, .7z, .torrent, .kdbx (KeePass database), and .asc (PGP key)." The Pastebin link was nuked