The promise of leaked nudes of the Euphoria and Madame Web actress are being used as bait

Image: NBC / Twitter / Kotaku

According to a new report, a lot of people are trying to find images of Madame Web star Sydney Sweeney’s bare breasts on X, formerly Twitter, and a load of hackers, trolls, and other nefarious players are taking advantage of this horny search and filling the social media site with malware links.

Let’s back up real fast. Last week, Sydney Sweeney hosted Saturday Night Live and showed off some cleavage. This was apparently enough to break the brains of many internet users, leading to a round of strange discourse claiming her breasts were the end of “Wokeness,” an example of how women can be themselves, a form of body positivity, another example of young women being turned into sex icons against their will, and then, eventually, people begging everyone to stop spending so much time talking about her breasts. (Can you tell that many parts of the internet we’ve relied on for years are dying and rotting?) Anyway, to capitalize on all of this boob discourse, some shady folks are using the promise of Sweeney’s breasts to lure folks into malware traps.

As reported by 404 Media, during the height of all this boob-y discourse, “Sydney Sweeney leak” became a top trending topic on X. Even almost a week later, it’s still one of the very first suggested searches that appear in the search bar if you start looking up the actor on the social media site. As noted by the outlet and confirmed by Kotaku, searching for her name will return a mix of results that often feature links to “leaked sex” videos starring the popular Euphoria star sprinkled between random posts and news about Sweeney.

But there is no leaked sex video of Sweeney anywhere on the internet. Instead, as confirmed by 404 Media, it’s all links to malware.

If you actually click on any of the Sweeney boob links, which you shouldn’t do, you’ll find Linktree sites containing links to download malicious and annoying popup adware software that hijacks your browser and computer. Clicking around these links, which again you shouldn’t do, won’t reveal secret videos of celebrity boobs but will likely lead to your PC’s antivirus software popping up to warn you to run away, fast.

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If this sounds familiar, it’s because this has been happening over and over again. We saw it recently with deep-faked pornographic content featuring Taylor Swift and podcast host Bobbi Althoff trending on the social media platform for hours. And as with this latest incident, people used those fake leaks to promote adware, malware, and other nasty computer viruses and scams. This trend of using fake leaks or AI images of female celebrities to lure horny Twitter users into malware traps is just the latest example of the social media site falling apart and turning into a lawless ghost town under Elon Musk’s ownership.

If you’ve used the site regularly in the last few months, you’ve likely seen a huge increase in porn bots, scam ads, and engagement-bait posts designed to anger people—often using fake info—to make money using its ad revenue sharing policy. And while the site before Musk wasn’t great, it wasn’t as bad as this. Using Twitter/X today in 2024 is like using 4chan—both lack moderation and are dangerous to engage with unless you have a virus blocker and a decent understanding of how to avoid scams and traps.

So, here’s my advice to any horny person trying to find images of naked people on the internet: Please don’t use Twitter. Go to PornHub or Xvideos like nature intended. And don’t watch creepy deepfakes of celebs either. The internet is filled with consenting adults getting naked or fucking on camera. Just watch that stuff instead of digging through Twitter posts and getting a virus.