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With this vulnerability attackers can use our computers for DRDoS attacks.

For information: https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/bittorrent-dos-attack.html

Not really, if you read the "white paper"  rather than the overly dramatic Life Hacker article. You will find that libtorrent is at the bottom of the "risk list".

Nice read, thanks ciao.