{"id":413,"date":"2011-06-28T05:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T05:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=413"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:53:41","slug":"simon-pegg-is-twitter-hacked-warns-fans-of-trojan-horse-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/like-jacking\/simon-pegg-is-twitter-hacked-warns-fans-of-trojan-horse-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Pegg is Twitter-hacked, warns fans of Trojan horse risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon PeggBritish<\/strong> comic actor Simon Pegg, celebrity of movies such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz”, and most newly the alien comedy “Paul”, has claimed that his Twitter account<\/strong> has been hacked in sort to extend malware to his 1.2 million followers.<\/p>\n

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Simon Pegg usually tweets to his fans with TweetDeck or Twitterific, but the aberrant communication was sent via the Twitter for BlackBerry application instead.<\/p>\n

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Download the new \u201cPaul\u201d Screen Saver [LINK] after download right click and press test to install. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Download the new Paul Sceen Saver [LINK] after download right click and press test to install.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fans of Simon Pegg hurried to download the screensaver, only for a lot of of them to report that their anti-virus software had established a Trojan horse in the ScreenSaver.exe file being associated to.<\/p>\n

Pegg posted a few messages representing that he supposed his account had been hacked, claim that he did not post any messages about a screensaver, and caution fans of the “computer virus” threat. He doesn’t shred his words about what he thinks of the hacker accountable.<\/p>\n

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And Pegg is right – it’s not a risk-free file. It’s a banking Trojan that Sophos detects as Troj\/VBBanker-A.<\/p>\n

Obviously, it is a appropriate caution to all internet users to believe long and hard before running or installing any unidentified happy on their computers.<\/p>\n

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Though the malware <\/strong>in this case is Windows-specific, funnyman Pegg couldn’t resist cracking a joke:<\/p>\n

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It’s no pleased matter, of course, for Simon Pegg’s Twitter followers – any of whom could have been putting their processor at risk if they downloaded and ran a hateful file.Famous figures that have fallen victim to a Twitter hack in the precedent comprise Ashton Kutcher, Lil Wayne, Axl Rose, Britney Spears and plumy-voiced British TV property crumpet Kirsty Allsopp.<\/p>\n

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Even publication like the New York Times and humorous phenomenon ShitMyDadSays have fallen foul of hackers on Twitter.It’s worth attitude in mind, though, that sometimes celebrities might have claimed to have been hacked on Twitter when in fact it’s quite possibly not true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simon PeggBritish comic actor Simon Pegg, celebrity of movies such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz”, and most newly the alien comedy “Paul”, has claimed that his Twitter account has been hacked in sort to extend malware to his 1.2 million followers.   Simon Pegg usually tweets to his fans with TweetDeck or Twitterific, … Continue reading “Simon Pegg is Twitter-hacked, warns fans of Trojan horse risk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[97,98],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-like-jacking","category-hackers","category-hijack","tag-simon-pegg","tag-twitter-hacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}