Searching for Chris Gayle and Sreesanth online may infect your computer.\u00a0 According to the study conducted by the online security solutions firm McAfee, Chris Gayle topped McAfee’s list of \u201cIndia’s most dangerous cricketer”, followed by Brett Lee and S Sreesanth.<\/p>\n
Cyber criminals use famous personalities in news like Chris Gayle and S Sreesanth, to lure people to websites with malicious software.<\/p>\n
“Cyber criminals constantly leverage famous personalities and very cleverly time their attacks to coincide with popular events in luring people to websites with malicious software. In this context, the cricket leagues, \u201csaid McAfee India Centre Vice President of Engineering (CMSB) Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur.<\/p>\n
Eager cricket fans are highly motivated to search for photos, videos, score and stories of their favourite cricketers online\u00a0 and in that moment of weakness they are lured into clicking malicious links that puts them at considerable risk.<\/p>\n
The list rated cricketers on their risk quotient on the internet in India. While 32 infected search results were found for Gayle, 31 and 30 such links were found for Lee and Sreesanth, respectively. Yuvraj Singh ranks 4th place (29), avid Miller ranks fifth (28), followed by South African bowler Dale Steyn (27). The others in the list are Kevin Pietersen and Kieron Pollard (26 each), Mitchell Johnson and Rohit Sharma (25 each) and Virat Kohli (24). Sachin Tendulkar<\/a> ranks at the bottom of the list at 10th position.<\/p>\n Free downloads are significantly the highest virus-prone search terms. Anyone searching for videos or files to download should be extra careful. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Share this with your friends and Stay Safe!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Searching for Chris Gayle and Sreesanth online may infect your computer.\u00a0 According to the study conducted by the online security solutions firm McAfee, Chris Gayle topped McAfee’s list of \u201cIndia’s most dangerous cricketer”, followed by Brett Lee and S Sreesanth. Cyber criminals use famous personalities in news like Chris Gayle and S Sreesanth, to lure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,106,5],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-11149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-sports","category-technology","tag-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}