Britney Spears Instagram: Hackers plant malware in singer's comments section

Hackers have been found trying to attack users through a cleverly disguised comment on an Instagram picture posted by Britney Spears' account. The unusual incident was spotted by security firm ESET, which investigated a comment that most web users would typically dismiss as spam. The picture, which was posted on 7 January, is still up, but the comment has been deleted. It was posted under the username'asmith2155', and appeared to read, "#2hot make loved to her, uupss #Hot #X." However, security expert Jean-Ian Boutin uncovered a bit.ly link hidden in the comment, which was linked to a malicious extension for the Firefox internet browser designed to steal people's data.