Summary
In November, 50,000 printers started suddenly printing a message urging recipients to subscribe to PewDiePie—YouTube’s most popular star ever, with 80 million subscribers. It came with a warning, too: That the printers were hacked because they were dangerously exposed to the internet.
A month later, the same hacker, known as HackerGiraffe, struck again, this time hacking smart TVs and Chromecast devices to autoplay a video promoting PewDiePie and urging them to fix their exposed devices.
Things only got crazier from there.
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| 0:00.0 | Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:11.0 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.0 | I know this. |
| 0:15.0 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
| 0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.8 | Eagle won. |
| 0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:24.9 | Today we're talking about the hackers, |
| 0:27.1 | YouTubers, and a prank war that went very wrong. |
| 0:30.2 | 70,000 Google devices were hacked to promote PewDiePie. |
| 0:34.7 | I don't like your T-Series. |
| 0:37.4 | Nothing personal, kid. But I must go all out. Pewty Pie. I don't like you T-Series. |
| 0:38.9 | Nothing personal, kid. |
| 0:41.6 | But I must go all out. |
| 0:44.2 | Just this once. |
| 0:48.6 | Bob's overgone, whichever will it be. |
| 0:50.5 | Set the fuck down Tiseries. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm here to spill the real tea. |
| 0:54.9 | You're trying to d-through me from spotter number one, |
| 0:56.6 | but you in the year you lose. |
| 0:57.8 | So best thing you have... In November, 50,000 printers started suddenly printing a message |
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