Sydney Sweeney is becoming extremely popular, and it’s not just because of her Saturday Night Live appearance.
When users on X search for leaked lewd photos of the actress, they are inundated with spam and potentially malicious content.
What is the ‘Sydney Sweeney leak’ malware scam?
Samantha Cole, a reporter stated, “If you’re catching obvious malware because you were looking for Sydney Sweeney’s b**bs on Twitter you’re beyond help.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you were searching Twitter for scandalous photos of Sydney Sweeney, you’re in for a lot of malware, another user commented.
On Monday afternoon, searches for the popular topic produced links to websites that contained malicious popup adware, which takes over browsers and bombards them with popups.
Following Sweeney’s (26), hosting of the NBC sketch comedy show on March 2, the content went viral, breaking X’s rules and policies.
The “Euphoria” actress’ physical appearance on “SNL,” where she played a Hooters waitress and flaunted her cleavage in a tight dress, also inspired flattering articles in conservative publications like The National Post in Canada and The Spectator in the US.
Editorialists for Think Pieces claimed that her breasts were a weapon against “woke culture.”
Confusion was caused by a single tweet from conservative pundit Richard Hanania, who captioned a video with the words “Wokeness is dead.”
Ian Miles Cheong, a fellow conservative commentator, concurred and used the same video to demonstrate how “wokeness is so finished.”
Even a meme suggesting that President Joe Biden was eyeing her as he got ready to give the State of the Union address last week was shared by a former Democratic congressman before it was deleted.
Only weeks after a fake sexually explicit video of podcast host Bobbi Althoff trended on the site, according to NBC News, and after deepfake nude images of pop star Taylor Swift went viral on X, the malware linked to the trending topic betrays users’ desire for pictures that would violate Sweeney’s privacy.
404 Media asserted that Elon Musk’s “under-moderation of the platform” is the reason why spam content is flourishing on X.
