YouTube fans can go to some pretty crazy lengths to defend their internet idols, and PewDiePew is no exception. The famous YouTube star is seeing his title as the YouTuber with the most subscribers worldwide threatened, as the Indian production company T-Series has grown so spectacularly on the video platform that it has reached a staggering 72 million subscribers. With that number, T-Series is only about 100.000 subscribers away from surpassing Felix Kjellberg, so one fan came up with a brilliant idea to stop them. How? With certain hacking techniques.
Hacked printers all over the world
The idea is simply to send you a message asking you to unfollow T-Series (if you do) and immediately subscribe to PewDiePew's channel . But do you think they'll do it with a spam email? An annoying banner in your browser? Not at all. The message arrives in physical form, directly through your own printer. This annoying user has been hacking connected printers around the world to carry out their nefarious plan, which is none other than to continue fiercely defending the reign of their favorite YouTuber.
Messages are appearing on the networks that confirm that the hack is indeed real, since many users are finding the printed text in the outbox of their printer:
PewDiwPew, currently the most subscribed channel on YouTube, is vying for the top spot with an Indian company called T-Series that simply uploads trailers and songs from Bollywood movies.
What to do:
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Cancel T-Series Subscription
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Follow PewDiePie
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Report the danger of this issue #SavePewDiePie
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Tell it to everyone you know. Really.
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Brofist! (PewDiePie greeting)
The person responsible for the hack in favor of PewDiePie
So this just randomly printed on one of our work printers. I think @pewdiepie has hacked our systems. pic.twitter.com/wSG9cprJ4s
— Dr.Moxmo (@Dr_Moxmo) November 29, 2018
Although there is nothing official, a Twitter account called TheHackerGiraffe has assumed to be responsible for the attack on the printers, and wanted to emphasize in an interview conducted by The Verge that users should be aware of the problem that exists in the connected printers. And it is that most are vulnerable, to the point that it only took half an hour to study the problem and attack the devices. (I had never hacked printers before).