Nintendo Switch fans targeted by cybercriminals with fake competitions and emulators

Scammers are attempting to trick Nintendo Switch fans into downloading malicious software by falsely promising to provide access to emulators for the console. Researchers from Norton by Symantec have found that criminals are using a variety of websites and YouTube videos to take advantage of internet users. Searching "Nintendo Switch emulator" on YouTube brings up a selection of videos, the most popular of which has over 75,000 views at the time of writing. Some of the clips tell viewers they can play Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on a PC by visiting a website and downloading a file. Others, which Norton by Symantec believes to have been deliberately designed to be generic so they can be repurposed for other trending search terms, show a person refer to "free tools" but never explicitly mention the Switch emulator.