THE article discusses the emergence of piracy scams for Christopher Nolan's movie **The Odyssey** within hours of its release. Scammers employed tactics like fake browser warnings and disguised malware as movie downloads. The two main scams involved misleading pop-ups claiming a browser issue, which redirected users to malvertising networks, and a file named `The Odyssey 2026 1080p WEBRip-LAMA.exe`, misleading users into downloading a harmful executable instead of an actual video file. The article emphasizes the importance of identifying suspicious file formats and promotes security measures to protect users from such scams.
Fake Odyssey movie downloads spread malware hours after release
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