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For those who hate clickbait titles:

""" a recently discovered backdoor Trojan used comments posted to Britney Spears's official Instagram account to locate the control server that sends instructions and offloads stolen data to and from infected computers. """

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I did a double take when I read the title. For a moment, I thought it must be parody.

When the actual content is already quite intriguing, an over the top clickbaitification like this becomes nausea inducing.

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