{"id":616379,"date":"2023-03-10T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/heres-another-really-good-reason-not-to-illegally-stream-films-online\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:49:11","slug":"heres-another-really-good-reason-not-to-illegally-stream-films-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/heres-another-really-good-reason-not-to-illegally-stream-films-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s another really good reason not to illegally stream films online"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-label=\"article\" data-id=\"QtV4g5CCDJRq3DLvtcBNm\">\n<header>\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\" aria-label=\"Return to Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\" aria-label=\"Return to News\">News<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\" aria-label=\"Return to Computing\">Computing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"Representational image of a hacker\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe.jpg\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Representational image of a hacker\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe-320-80.jpg\" alt=\"Representational image of a hacker\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/h3qR8UKMq6wXR6WHZfxfUe.jpg\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"338\"><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\">\n<span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Shutterstock)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>An unknown criminal group has made a \u201ctechnically complex\u201d construction of bogus websites and video streaming platforms that defrauded Google Ads users and made at least $1.2 million a month for over a year, experts have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>A report from cybersecurity researchers Malwarebytes and Deepsee analyzed an illegal video streaming operation and uncovered a complex and creative way the authors earned their keep.<\/p>\n<p>They named the operation DeepStreamer, which operated around a website called mikerin, which the pair found was loading ads \u201cdeep under the content of\u201d a separate website called moviesjoy.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"hiding-the-ads-in-plain-sight\">Hiding the ads in plain sight<\/h2>\n<p>Moviesjoy was the streaming website that offered its visitors free HD movies and TV series with \u201cabsolutely zero ads\u201d on the site. \u201cOnce you hit the play button, you can start streaming right away, without any interruptions in the middle,\u201d the site claims.<\/p>\n<p>The ads, however, were there &#8211; they were just embedded and hidden. What the researchers had uncovered was a trick in which ads from \u201cseemingly regular websites\u201d were being loaded on the movie site, but not shown anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The legitimate websites are embedded and hidden into the page via iFrames, the researchers found, while the users watching the video content were completely unaware of their existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In total, four Google ads would load per page. The page would reload from time to time, bringing in fresh ads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The users and visitors of the illegal website aren\u2019t the ones being defrauded here, though. It\u2019s Google Ads users, those who are paying Google to display their ads to relevant audiences, who are not getting their money\u2019s worth. While one might argue that the pirates tried too hard and could have simply displayed the ads to their visitors &#8211; the researchers said Google would probably not allow it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, \u201cthere is no way legitimate advertisers (meaning those that would pay more) would accept traffic coming from a site offering pirated movies,\u201d they concluded.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s our rundown of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/firewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span> right now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent\">\n<section>\n<p>Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-authorBio\">\n<p>Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he\u2019s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He\u2019s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/heres-another-really-good-reason-not-to-illegally-stream-films-online\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Buffy Lupo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) An unknown criminal group has made a \u201ctechnically complex\u201d construction of bogus websites and video streaming platforms that defrauded Google Ads users and made at least $1.2 million a month for over a year, experts have revealed.A report from cybersecurity researchers Malwarebytes and Deepsee analyzed an illegal video streaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,847,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-616379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-heres","8":"category-really","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}