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Spotify abused to promote pirated software and game cheats (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Spotify playlists and podcasts are being abused to push pirated software, game cheat codes, spam links, and "warez" sites.

By injecting targeted keywords and links in playlist names and podcast descriptions, threat actors may benefit from boosting SEO for their dubious online properties, since Spotify's web player results appear in search engines like Google.

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[–] SplashJackson 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd always pronounced it "where-azz" and I'm not sure I could ever switch to "wares"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My best friend back in the day pronounced it WAR-EZ. It was a constant point of contention between us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I think War-ez sounds cool

[–] SplashJackson 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds like your best friend is me! Surprise!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hah! So I'm not the only one!