Attackers are exploiting the hype surrounding this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominated movies to infect fans with malware and to bait them to phishing websites designed to steal sensitive info. The 92nd Academy Awards ceremonies are just around the corner on February 9th. ‘Joker’ was the most popular movie to use as a malware lure among threat actors with over 300 malicious files being camouflaged as a Joker preview. Kaspersky researchers also discovered that ‘1917’ was second in this rating with 215 malicious files.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oscar-nominated-movies-featured-in-phishing-malware-attacks/