Search engine queries for Brittany Murphy returned sites containing links to malware. So it s the usual situation, with the bad guys exploiting the death of a famous person, just like they did with Michael Jackson. Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon. Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces. In both cases, they used Brittany Murphy’s name.
Source: https://threatpost.com/all-about-brittany-twitter-122309/73296/