Here’s a strange cocktail: Internet celeb and previous Apple Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki, a sex video of Leighton Meester (the star of hit TV show “Gossip Girl”), a shake over of Twitter, and a shot of web-based malware.
My doubts were raised when I saw that Guy Kawasaki has posted a message saying
Leighton Meester sex tape video free download!
On his Twitter account.
Certain sufficient, next the link hops you flanked by a sequence of websites, contribution to show you a sex video of the young Hollywood actress.
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As we’ve seen in other attacks in the past, approving to download the codec to view the sex video is not a first-class idea. The webpage can tell if you are visiting the site using an Apple Mac or a Windows computer, and will serve up the relevant piece of malware. In the case of Macs the malware is detect by Sophos as OSX/Jahlav-C.The detail that the post was published on Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter account (which has almost 140,000 followers) is mainly worrying
I wonder how many people might have thought it was worth the risk of clicking on the link, if there was a chance of watching a free Leighton Meester sex video. It’s only a pair of weeks since we reported on other instances of hackers spreading the Jahlav-C Trojan horse via an X-rated lure to Mac users. The worry is that many Mac users are not running any anti-virus protection – amazing maybe they need to reconsider.
Phishing scam which is one of the popular Nigerian scams occupies its own throne in causing threat to human emotions and lives. Recent years, the type of phishing has extended its wings into popular micro blogging site Twitter. High profile members such as Britney Spears and Barack Obama too got distributed with malicious links and spam messages. Some years back, scammers hacked the profile of Guy Kawasaki, famous Apple personality having over 100,000 followers and posted a site link of sex tape of Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester.
It is still suspicious how hackers gained access to Kawasaki’s account. Later predicted that the victim would have got directed logging into fake Twitter account without his knowledge where the victim might get tricked of tracking login credentials by scammers. On gaining access, intruders post spam messages on hot topics in order to gain clicks for that particular account.
Windows user actually falls for the scam when they unknowingly download Trojan linked Kawasaki account, the DNS will get directed to the server that has been under control of hackers. This software affects both Macs and PCs.
In order to defend yourself being fall as victim for Nigerian spam, strength and protect your passwords and do never click any suspicious links.