A torrent for One Battle After Another installs a remote access Trojan called Agent Tesla.
Scammers are capitalizing on the popularity of Leonard DiCaprio’s latest film to try and infect unsuspecting PC users with malware.
Antivirus provider Bitdefender is warning about the threat “after noticing a spike in detections,” suggesting the malware is gaining some traction among Windows users.
The malware is arriving through a torrent for One Battle After Another. Pirated downloads of the film have been circulating on peer-to-peer networks, but this particular torrent installs an infamous remote access Trojan targeting Windows PCs called Agent Tesla.
“This type of malware is designed with a single purpose: to provide attackers with unfettered access to the victim’s Windows computer,” Bitdefender added.
