Fake Odyssey movie downloads spread malware hours after release

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.