The Odyssey piracy scams surface hours after its theatrical debut

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey had barely reached theaters before scammers began targeting people searching for pirated copies, according to Malwarebytes. Within hours of the film’s release, researchers found two separate scams running on cloned piracy sites: fake browser warnings and Windows executables disguised as movie downloads. “Neither scam has anything to do with the movie itself. They’re simply taking advantage of people searching for a popular new release,” Malwarebytes wrote. Fake browser warning pushes visitors … appeared first on Help Net Security.