It’s catnip for hackers.

Computer users are Googling whether owning Bengal cats is legal after falling victim to a bizarre cyberattack.

Cybersecurity company SOPHOS published an urgent warning on its websiteurging people not to type six words into their search engines.

Those who google “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” » have had their personal information stolen after clicking on fraudulent links that appear at the top of the page.

“Victims are often tricked into clicking on malicious adware or links disguised as legitimate marketing, or in this case, a legitimate Google search,” SOPHOS explained.

Currently, dangerous links only appear in search results when the word “Australia” is included, meaning people in Australia are at greatest risk of attack.

Once users click on a search result – which appears legitimate – personal information, such as banking details, is stolen from them via a program called Gootloader.

The program can also prevent users from accessing their own computers, according to SOPHOS.

Although the search term for Bengal cats seems relatively niche, the company says that makes the threat of hacking even more alarming because you don’t need to search for anything nefarious to have your information stolen personal.

SOPHOS says cybercriminals are increasingly infiltrating harmless Google searches using a tactic known as “SEO poisoning.”

The practice is described by the Daily Mail as an “insidious technique by which criminals manipulate search engine results to push websites they control to the top of the page”

SOPHOS is urging those who believe they have been victims of SEO poisoning to change their passwords as soon as possible.