Want to 'live long and prosper'? Then avoid pirated, malware-laden Star Wars streams and pay to watch

Want to 'live long and prosper'? Then avoid pirated, malware-laden Star Wars streams and pay to watch

Poisoned movie feeds will do more damage than an angry Dalek


Movie fans eager for an early peek at the new Star Wars installment are putting themselves at risk of malware infection.


This according to the crew from Kaspersky Lab, who warn that criminals are disguising malware as streams of The Rise of Skywalker in hopes of scoring a few easy infections on unsuspecting users.


The tactics themselves are nothing new. Malware operators have long used popular movie and film franchises as a way to convince users to open the trojans and exploit files that download malware. Such is the case here, where torrent and file-sharing sites are offering malware that presents itself as a copy of the new film.


In this case, however, the attacks are ..

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