Poker Malware
I think you will agree with me when I say:
Poker content can be quite EXPENSIVE.
Especially, when your budget is tight and you rather spend your money on playing poker.
But…
Poker Players Beware: Malware Ninjas and Miscreants Lie in Wait. Posted on: December 5, 2013, 05:30h. Last updated on: December 5, 2013, 06:24h. High-stakes poker player Masaaki Kagawa reportedly has been arrested by police in Japan for allegedly, according to Symantec, “distributing spam that included emails with links to download.
There are other options than paying for your poker content.
So, in this article, I will show you the best poker content you can get for free by downloading it as torrent files.
But, before that a few words of caution regarding torrents.
- Downloading copyrighted content is illegal in most countries
- Torrent sites are known for tons of ads and malware, please consider using an ad-blocker
- qBittorrent is a free and open source BitTorrent client you can use to download poker torrents
- Beware of suspicious files in the torrents, only open the files you trust
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Top 12 Free Poker Torrents
- Governor of Poker 2 – Full PreCracked – Foxy Games: The full version of Governor of Poker 2 for PC. It is a rather old upload, so it’s not the latest version of the game. But, this will enable you to play the game offline and on your PC.
- David Sklansky The Theory of Poker: David Sklansky’s book The Theory of Poker in PDF.
- The Poker Mindset – Audio Book + PDF: PDF and audio versions of the book The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success by Matthew Hilger.
- Poker – Texas Hold’em – The Ultimate Collection of Books: A great collection of poker books, plus some digital poker articles.
- Udemy Essential Poker Math for No Limit Holdem Tutorial: Poker course from Udemy with video and PDF.
- Poker books (over 250): A collection of over 250 poker books.
- World Series Of Poker 2017 Main Event: The full WSOP 2017 event, split into different parts.
- 33 New Poker Books: Another collection of poker books.
- Poker Strategy – How to Win Playing Poker Online & Offline: Another poker video course from Udemy.
- 65+ Poker Strategy EBooks Collection: Another collection of poker books.
- Governor of Poker 1 and 2: Full version of these two games.
- Poker After Dark 2017: Videos from the TV show Poker After Dark.
These were the best poker torrents I found with regards to seeders and content, at the time of writing this.
The poker books content alone should keep you busy and hopefully also improve your poker skills.
You can also explore and find your own poker torrents by browsing these sites:
A word of caution:
If you Google “poker torrents” you will come across a site called BestPokerTorrents.
Avoid that site.
Why?
They won’t allow you to download their torrents without paying them. Which destroys the whole purpose of getting poker content for free. If you are willing to pay, it is much better to do so for the content creators.
Anybody who has ever played poker, online or offline, always suspects that they might be the victim of cheating when the cards aren't going their way.
Now there's evidence to suspect that the hunch is real when it comes to two of the world's most popular online gambling portals. 'Several hundred' gamblers on the Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker platforms have been hit with a cheating trojan, according to ESET security researcher Robert Lipovsky.
Every once in a while, though, we stumble upon something that stands out, something that doesn’t fall into the “common” malware categories that we encounter every day—such as ransomware, banking trojans, or targeted attacks (APTs)—just to name a few of those that are currently causing the most problems. Today, we’re bringing you one of those uncommon threats—a trojan devised to target players of online poker.
The latest Windows malware discovery, called Odlanor, comes two years after ESET warned of the PokerAgent botnet propagating on Facebook in connection to the Zynga Poker app.
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker did not immediately respond for comment.
AdvertisementHere's how the latest trojan works, according to ESET:
Like a typical computer trojan, users usually get infected with Win32/Spy.Odlanor unknowingly when downloading some other, useful application from sources different than the official websites of the software authors. This malware masquerades as benign installers for various general purpose programs, such as Daemon Tools or mTorrent. In other cases, it was loaded onto the victim’s system through various poker-related programs—poker player databases, poker calculators, and so on—such as Tournament Shark, Poker Calculator Pro, Smart Buddy, Poker Office, and others.
Once executed, the Odlanor malware will be used to create screenshots of the window of the two targeted poker clients—PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker, if the victim is running either of them. The screenshots are then sent to the attacker’s remote computer.
Afterwards, the screenshots can be retrieved by the cheating attacker. They reveal not only the hands of the infected opponent but also the player ID. Both of the targeted poker sites allow searching for players by their player IDs, hence the attacker can easily connect to the tables on which they’re playing.
We are unsure whether the perpetrator plays the games manually or in some automated way.
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ESET said it has discovered 'several versions' of this malware dating back to March of this year. Online gamblers in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary appear to be the biggest victims, ESET said. The research firm said it believes 'several hundred' users have been infected.
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ESET cautioned that 'the trojan poses a potential threat to any player of online poker.'