Priyanka Chopra: Most Dangerous

Bollywood's reigning actress turned ‘Exotic' singer, Priyanka Chopra has been named McAfee's Most Dangerous Celebrity TM in Indian cyberspace this year. Priyanka knocks Sunny Leone, who topped the list last year to take this year's title.

McAfee researched popular culture's most famous people to reveal riskiest celebrity sportsmen, actors and politicians across the web and unveil the 2013 rendition of ‘Most Dangerous Celebrity' research.

The study highlights the trend of cybercriminals using celebs to take advantage of fans seeking more information about their idols. Cybercriminals often lure unsuspecting supporters to sites laden with malware that can steal passwords and personal information. These criminals capitalize on the public's fascination with celebrity to lure them to sites laden with malware that enables them to steal passwords and personal information. This year, searching for a celebrity name coupled with the search terms ‘wallpaper', ‘videos', resulted in the highest instances of malware-laden sites.

Commenting on the findings of the study, Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur, VP of Engineering, consumer and mobile, Business Group, McAfee India Centre said, " In India where celebrities are given the status of demi gods, cybercriminals often use their names to lure people to sites that actually host malicious software designed to compromise personal details and disrupt devices. By including the names of popular celebrities in a website's search tags, cyber criminals are able to direct more visitors to malicious sites where they may unwittingly sign up for spam or harmful spyware ending up with a malware ridden devices."

Priyanka Chopra (#1), Kareena Kapoor ((#4) and Sunny Leone ((#9) are the only women to rank in the top 10 Most Dangerous Celebrity list.