Bad Guys are sneaking malware into Brit Awards nominee Billie Eilish’s music
Researchers at Kaspersky have detected a 39% rise in attacks related to 2019 Grammy-nominated artists, many of which were nominated for Brit Awards this week.
Brit nominees Ariana Grande and Post Malone – alongside Taylor Swift – were the artists used most to disguise malicious software, with over half of the files named after them.
Meanwhile, Post Malone’s Sunflower, Khalid’s Talk and Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road were the tracks that were subjected to the most malware attacks this year. Kaspersky also spotted a correlation between an artist’s rise in popularity and malicious activity. The number of users fooled by dodgy files with Billie Eilish’s name on them has risen tenfold since 2018, going from 254 all the way up to 2171. That said, hidden malware seems to be increasing all around, if established artist Lady Gaga’s sudden surge is anything to go by.
