British comic actor Simon Pegg, star of movies such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz”, and most recently the alien comedy “Paul”, has claimed that his Twitter account has been hacked in order to spread malware to his 1.2 million followers.
Simon Pegg normally tweets to his fans with TweetDeck or Twitterific, but the offending message was sent via the Twitter for BlackBerry application instead:
Download the new “Paul” Sceen Saver [LINK] after download right click and press test to install.
Fans of Simon Pegg rushed to download the screensaver, only for many of them to report that their anti-virus software had found a Trojan horse in the ScreenSaver.exe file being linked to.
Pegg posted a few messages indicating that he believed his account had been hacked, claiming that he did not post any messages about a screensaver, and warning fans of the “computer virus” threat. He doesn’t mince his words about what he thinks of the hacker…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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