Attackers have generated $3,900 so far in an ongoing campaign that’s exploiting the popular rTorrent application to install currency-mining software on computers running Unix-like operating systems, ...

rTorrent is a Unix-based torrent client that is implemented in C++. rTorrent optionally supports XML-RPC to allow control by other external programs. XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol ...

F5 threat researchers have discovered a second campaign targeting an earlier rTorrent configuration error, this time to disguise threat actors’ activities with user-agents that appear to be legitimate ...

Have a dedicated Debian-based torrent download box, runs rtorrent inside a screen instance and watches a directory for torrents it needs to download. This has worked excellently for me for a few years ...