Former Demonoid Members Receive Email Claiming Resurrection, Get Malware Instead
New submitter giveen1 writes "I recieved this email as a former Demonoid.me user. I tried to go to the website and link is dead. ... 'Dear Demonoid Community Member, We have all read the same news stories: The Demonoid servers shut down and seized in the Ukraine. The Demonoid admin team detained in Mexico. The demonoid.me domain snatched and put up for sale. The Demonoid trackers back online in Hong Kong, but then disappearing. ... Now for some good news: The heart and soul of Demonoid lives on! Through an amazing sequence of unlikely events, the data on those Ukrainian servers has made its way into the safe hands of members of our community and has now been re-launched as d2.vu.'" But it turns out that the site was distributing malware, hosted on an American VPS, and quickly shut down after the provider discovered this. No word yet on how the Demonoid user database was acquired, but if you did make the mistake of trying to log in Torrent Freak warns: "New information just in suggests that ...
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Northern Mexico Newspaper Says No Drug Coverage
A newspaper in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila announced Monday it will no longer cover information related to drug cartels, citing safety concerns.
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‘War Correspondents’ In Mexico Address Mainstream Media Shortcomings, Use Twitter To Spread Information
In Mexico’s drug-war-torn cities, a small number of Twitter users affected by narco violence are acting as war correspondents to the masses, providing a public-safety alert system of sorts, according to a recent research paper from Microsoft, called “The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare.”
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Death Toll in Mexico City Explosion at 32
The explosion at the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company on Thursday injured at least 121 people, officials said, but they gave no information about the cause.
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Mexico police held over organised-crime ties
Durango state officials say 158 officers protected and shared information with drug traffickers for past three years.
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