: Governments in India and Pakistan frequently ordered ISPs to block domains associated with TorrentPK, leading to the "cat-and-mouse" game of domain hopping. Security Risks and Best Practices
While TorrentPK survived most of 2021, cracks began to show in Q4. The operators started facing "DDoS for ransom" attacks. Furthermore, major ad networks refused to work with pirate sites, forcing TorrentPK to use extremely aggressive, often malicious, ad providers. User trust eroded as reports of "cryptojacking" (where a visitor’s CPU is used to mine cryptocurrency without consent) surfaced. torrentpk 2021