Spotify abused to promote pirated software and game cheats
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.
Most recently, a Spotify playlist with the title "Sony Vegas Pro 13 Crack..." appeared to drive traffic to one or more "free" software sites listed in the playlist title and description.
The terms "warez" or "crack" are frequently used in the computing culture to refer to bootleg or pirated software circulating on the internet, often on untrustworthy websites.
There's no guarantee, ever, that attempting to download counterfeit software products from such websites, or "torrents" will be risk-free, as these could be malware, or lead users to bogus "survey" sites which are scams.
Users who download such "warez" may indeed, on occasion, receive the software program advertised on the suspicious websites without coughing up a fee, but may unknowingly end up with viruses, adware, or other unwanted programs hidden in the "cracked" version of the software.
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