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4chan prank morphs into malware attack in Kanye death hoax: http://bit.ly/2Oix4L 10/21/2009 |
Kanye West is Alive, But Memes May Be In Danger
Fast Company - Technology —
Even if you hate the jackass who stole Taylor Swift's spotlight, it pays to know that Kanye lives. Why? Because the rabble have turned it into a Google-beating malware scheme that could punk you into downloading some bad stuff--before coercing you out of money for a fix. According to ArsTechnica, the perps have taken advantage of an SEO hack to get their malware page to rise to the top of Google's results. That has led many unsuspecting searchers to exploitative sites as they try to verify the rumor. What's bizarrely artful about the whole scheme is that the progenitors of the rumor--those 4Chan miscreants who vandalized West's Wikipedia page--are thought ...
