As per the study conducted by McAfee for this season’s top celebrities of the cricketing world in the Indian cyberspace, it has been revealed that Christopher Henry “Chris” Gayle, took the top slot as “India’s Most Dangerous IPL Cricketer”, followed by Brett Lee and S. Sreesanth.
Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur, Vice-President of Engineering (CMSB), McAfee India Centre, said, “Cybercriminals constantly leverage famous personalities and very cleverly time their attacks to coincide with popular events in luring people to websites with malicious software. In the context of the ongoing cricketing leagues, cyber crooks are leveraging famous cricketers for their nefarious gains. During such events, eager cricket crazy fans are highly motivated to search for photos, videos, score and stories of their favourite cricketers online and in that moment of weakness they are lured into clicking malicious links that puts them at considerable risk.”
The study used the McAfee SiteAdvisor site rating which indicates the sites that are risky to search for cricketing celebrity names on the web and calculate an overall risk percentage.
