Users in New Zealand keen to view hacked photos of naked celebrities are being blamed for a nationwide lnternet meltdown involving the country's main provider.
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| New Zealanders be like.... |
It is believed that a handful of computer users clicked links on Friday evening believing they would take them to the illicit images, but instead they inadvertently installed malware triggering a crippling Internet attack.
It took telecommunications giant Spark until Sunday to fully repair what it termed a "dynamic" cybereattack that overloaded its system covering more than 600,000 customers. Spark tweeted it was aware that when people clicked on some links they inadvertently installed malware.
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| People just pissed off as even Google can't find for them lol |
Computer security specialists Trend Micro issued an alert shortly before the attack began, warning not to open the links related to the nude celebrities. "For obvious reasons, clicking on links to 'naked celebrity' photos, or opening email attachments would be a very bad idea right now, expect criminals to ride this bandwagon immediately," it said.
Trend Micro said users who clicked the link offering to show a video of the actress were directed to download a "video converter" that was actually a malicious software.
New Zealand authorities said they did not know who was behind the attack, which was launched from outside the country, and the malware was generating denial-of-service attacks towards Europe.
People just can't stop themselves from searching for those nudes as they have "hope on the Internet", but it gets even tougher as
Reddit Shuts down the subreddit 'The Fappening' which was the major source for the pics
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| "hope on the Interest" |
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