They have issued a warning to fans of the television programme , Game of Thrones advising them against downloading the drama from unauthorised sites . Game of Thrones has been the most pirated television show for the past four years . Threat management company , Oracle , has discovered more than 450 pirated content websites , which spiked downloaded or streamed material with malware . The company warned that not only would those users run the risk of infecting their own devices , but also spread it to a wider environment if they downloaded shows at home or used personal devices to access corporate systems . Of the malicious web pages that were detected , 34 % spread malware via malicious ads .
Researchers have issued a warning to fans of the television programme, Game of Thrones advising them against downloading the drama from unauthorised sites. Game of Thrones has been the most pirated television show for the past four years. Threat management firm, RiskIQ, has discovered more than 450 pirated content websites, which spiked downloaded or streamed material with malware. The company warned that not only would those users run the risk of infecting their own devices, but could spread it to a wider environment if they downloaded shows at work or used personal devices to access corporate systems. Of the malicious web pages that RiskIQ detected, 34% spread malware via malicious ads.