It was "HyakuPercent" https://www.goodjobmedia.com/2018/09/l...kupercent/

This account had since been banned: https://nyaa.si/user/HyakuPercent

I see, thanks for the info.
Does anyone know which user this was?

Yes, one user who had a trusted account died in 2018 and had suddenly started  to uploaded fake releases, a few weeks ago. Either some one who knew them sold the account, the password was used elsewhere or their info got leaked.

It's a really trivial matter. The viruses they spread require at least an older version of Windows to infect them, and Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 can prevent them.

Even try to install, it won't happen unless they remove the windef

Thanks for the heads up.
(fortunately the filters I previously added automatically excluded their uploads)

Is there anything to back up that theory?
To me, it doesn't look like accounts got "hacked". The user had never uploaded anything previously, has never posted a comment, and this applies to Nyaa's sukebei site.

All users that have posted malware on Nyaa share the same pattern (if I recall correctly).

A lot of sites impose restrictions on new users, so I've noticed that spammers often register accounts months or years before doing anything with them. My hunch is that these Nyaa malware posters are just sleeper accounts.

There of course could be other possibilities, like your hacked accounts theory, or accounts being sold etc, but they seem unlikely to me considering the amount of effort required. Sleeper accounts can be automated, and I've seen it play out on sites like Anidex.

He started bubbling after twobe warned user uploading a virus on torrent.

Seems nickname 'anon' is starting to catch on with a lot of people. But he not me.

Your opion is the minority here. You talk as it is you that is developing something, let me now so i won't access by mistake.

User is now banned, and their torrents deleted.

people be doing everything except stopping pressurising AT admin to give away his precious property and developing an alternative by joining hands. If you cannot develop yourself, just fucking wait. It's piracy, it won't disappear. (I am definitely not hinting that we are working one, and it will probably be announced in a month or so... :D)

It's clear the admins haven't actively moderated the site in a while, but the recent virus posting boom is mostly users getting hacked, which is entirely their fault imo.

I'm increasingly convinced how weak nyaa's security is.
Admin can only block its users

Thanks for the info.

Another retard got hacked, don't know if there are filters in place but blacklist their uploads. https://nyaa.si/user/Klyxar

I am new to animetosho, but i have blast because of animetosho for the past 2 years. THANK YOU

I'm just quoting what admin said here : https://animetosho.torrentbay.st/about/shutdown

"I also don't intend to hand over control of AT to someone else - I encourage anyone who wishes to manage a service like this to do so under their own name and terms. Thus I believe a shutdown to be the best course of action."

I hope it helps.

Funny how so many relied on some one else good will for so long and never planned for its removal.

All good things must come to an end, especially to allow new things to be born and grow. Thank you admin for providing a great site for so many years. The usenet posts will remain long after the site is gone, so your contributions will continue to benefit anime lovers for many more years. I wish you the best in your future endeavors, and I'm sure the best will happen to you with all the good karma you built up running this site for all of us ;)

Admin. please let us know if you change your mind in transforming the site in a comunity or delegating it to others. As you may see there are alot of people pleading for the site service.

Admin, if anyone expresses interest in taking the site over from you, please do whatever you can to help them do so. This is especially important now that all the XDCC bots (Arutha Foundation bots and Ginpachi Sensei) that were hosting new releases are now permanently down. If Anime Tosho goes down and there's nothing to replace it, all of our eggs will be in one basket: torrents. It's vital that we have an alternative option to torrents in DDLs. Anime Tosho going down wouldn't be as huge of a deal if the XDCC bots didn't also just permanently go down, but here we are, and this is a big deal.