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.

  • @Tattorack
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    103 hours ago

    Oh! We’re reviving “warez”? Nice!

    • @[email protected]
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      21 hour ago

      I’d always pronounced it “where-azz” and I’m not sure I could ever switch to “wares”

      • @Tattorack
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        136 minutes ago

        Hah! So I’m not the only one!

      • @[email protected]
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        144 minutes ago

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