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Cyber criminals know what sells and what doesn’t. Sensing the frenzy around Sunny Leone, the porn star who made her debut in Bollywood this year, they have devised a new trap – malicious sites laden with info and pictures of the actor.
Sunny Leone pushed Katrina Kaif to the second slot. The list is exhaustive … Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Bipasha Basu, Vidya Balan, Deepika Padukone, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Poonam Pandey.
Salman Khan is the lone male star to find a place in the ‘Most Dangerous Celebrity in Indian Cyberspace’ research conducted by the security solutions firm McAfee.
“Cyber criminals continue to leverage top celebrities to lure people to Web sites with malicious software. This year too, we saw cyber crooks leveraging Bollywood stars whereby the maximum number of malicious software-laden sites pertained to Sunny Leone,” Lubna Markar, Senior Marketing Manager (India and South Asia), McAfee, said.
“Cyber criminals follow the latest trends, often using the names of popular celebrities to lure people to malicious sites designed to steal passwords and personal information,” the McAfee executive said.
When fans of these actresses type search strings such as ‘name of celebrity’ combined with words such as ‘free downloads’, ‘hot pictures’, ‘screen savers’, and ‘videos’, the results could lead to them to the malicious sites. If they check them, they will lead to the launch of malicious applications on their computers.
>kurmanath.kanchi@thehindu.co.in
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