Russian hackers are lurking in the comments of Britney Spears’ Instagram
Nothing’s safe from Russian hackers these days—not democratic elections, nor even our celebrities’ social media accounts. Those carefully curated feeds draw a staggering number of eyes on Instagram, which is on track to hit a billion users this year, so naturally they’re now under threat from miscreants and malware. Just recently, Britney Spears’ Instagram account was infiltrated by hackers via a spam-like comment. Engadget picked up a report from Slovakian security firm ESET, which found a vaguely creepy sentence fragment posted on a photo of Spears in a mesh onesie. That seeming gibberish was later revealed to be some kind of beacon for malware.