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.

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

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Hah! So I’m not the only one!

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

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I think War-ez sounds cool

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Sounds like your best friend is me! Surprise!

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