Cybercriminals Use Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Film Torrent to Spread Agent Tesla Malware
Cybersecurity researchers from Bitdefender have discovered that a fake torrent file of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film, One Battle After Another, hides a complex series of scripts designed to infect Windows users with a powerful trojan named Agent Tesla.
When people download the movies, they expect a video file. Instead, the torrent offers a hidden set of PowerShell scripts that unpack, decode, and execute a memory-resident malware payload.
Criminals use popular movies because the number of p