Cyber-criminals use Grammy nominees to target South Africans
Cyber-criminals lure users with popular music and TV shows as ways to spread malware, according to cyber-security firm Kaspersky
30 January 2020 - 18:10
Using the name or songs of American artist Billie Eilish, cyber-criminals launched more than 184,000 malware attacks on thousands of South Africans during 2019, the cyber-security company Kaspersky has found.
Kaspersky analysed the names and songs of all the Grammy-nominated artists and detected more than 30,000 malicious files globally. “The names of Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Post Malone were used most,” the company said in a statement...
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