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The next film in the popular Twilight series is bound for box office success following its release, and ‘Twihards’ everywhere are on the prowl for any details they can find online about Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.
However, savvy cybercriminals know curiosity may overcome caution when it comes to the supernatural series.
Antivirus software company Norton has already found that many searches related to the movie are returning malicious results.
When clicked, these ‘poisoned’ links can automatically put viruses, keylogging programmes (where criminals can monitor everything you type), and other infected software on your smartphone, computer or tablet that can cause endless days of trouble. Not to mention leaving your bank account as drained as a vampire’s victim.
Common searches that are turning up poisoned results tend to be for photos, trailers, clips, casting information and plot details on the series. Top search terms that we’ve already seen returning poisoned results include ‘Robert and Kristin kissing’ and ‘Twilight true love’.
Norton has seen a spike in these poisoned search results with the release of the latest movie.
