Judas and the Black Messiah is the most-abused film, accounting to 27 percent of the malware used to spread malware. 70 percent of these malicious files were spread via links to purportedly watch one of three movies. Kaspersky researchers identified around 80 malicious files associated with films nominated in the Oscars Best Picture category in the past year. The best protection against these types of scams is educating users not to click on these malicious links in the first place, experts said.
Source: https://threatpost.com/oscar-bait-hackers-nominated-phishing-malware/165583/