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Microsoft warns of malware surprise pushed via pirated movies

Piracy sites and movie piracy sites have seen a huge surge of incoming traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft warns that malicious actors are taking advantage of this trend trying to infect potential victims with malware delivered via fake movie torrents. The malicious VBScript is camouflaged as popular Hollywood movies such as John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum, and it is delivered using file names such as “John_Wick_3_Parabellsum

Source: security

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