Someone hacked 50 thousand printers in order to print a message that encouraged people
to subscribe to pewdiepie and unsubscribe from t series.
The hacker was a pewdiepie fan that goes by the hacker giraffe and I’m going to tell
you how he did it, right now On IO.
What is happening people this is inform overload, I’m charlotte dobre and I still cant believe
t series hasn’t beat pewdiepie yet.
Like i can believe it but I also cant at the same time.
This drawn out battle probably has a lot to do with pewdiepie’s massive dedicated fan
base who are doing whatever they can to help felix remain the most subscribed youtuber.
At the time of this recording, according ot the live count, pewdiepie is at 73.5 million
and t series is at 73.3 million.
Someone that goes by The Hacker Giraffe claimed responsibility for hacking 50 thousand printers
across the world to print a message that encouraged people to sub to pewdiepie and spread the
word.
The hacker giraffe went on reddit to explain how he managed to hack 50 thousand printers.
Apparently he was bored playing destiny 2 for a continuous 4 hours and he decided he
wanted to hack something.
I mean no big deal, I get bored and hack things all the time.
(I don’t) So then he thought of things he could hack using shodan.
Shodan is a search engine for internet connected devices.
Some printers use internet connections.
So he searched 3 different ports on shodan, and found 800 thousand results.
He picked the first 50 thousand printers running on port 9100 and downloaded the list.
He then opened text editor and typed up a note.
This is what the message said.
ATTENTION.
Pewdiepie is in trouble and he needs your help to defeat t series.
Pewdiepie, the currently most subscribed to channel on youtube is at stake of losing his
position as the number one position by an indian company called t series, that simply
upload videos of Bollywood trailers and songs.
And then the printed message has instructions.
#1, unsub from t series.
2 subscribe to pewdiepie.
3 share awareness of this issue #savepewdiepie #4 tell everyone you know, seriously.
#5 bro fist and then theres a literal text are image of a bro fist.
I mean this is some serious dedication.
Oh I should also tell you the extra points portion because its actually great.
#1 subscribe to dolan ark #2 subscribe to grandayy.
#3 hit that dab like wiz khalifa #4 delete tik tok. #5 smile the world is a great place.
#6 nevermind its 2018 and we’re all gonna die.
People all over the world started tweeting pictures of the pewdiepie messages.
Madison tweeted, why are local printers being hacked for this.
Jessica tweeted, on Wednesday our work printer was hacked.
This message printed out on our cheques.
Even though this was pretty funny and lighthearted, you have to admit that Its kind of alarming
that thehackergiraffe was able to hack that many printers that easily.
And he just chose the first 50 thousand.
He could have hacked 800 thousand if he wanted to.
Imagine if that kind of power went into the wrong hands.
I mean sure its just a printed message but if you really wanted to scare the crap out
of somebody, or steal information, this is how you do it.
The Hacker Giraffe also said that he wanted to hack these printers to spread security
awareness.
In an interview with the verge, the hacker said, people underestimate how easy a malicious
hacker could have used a vulnerability like this to cause major havoc.
Hackers could have stolen files, installed malware, caused physical damage to the printers
and even use the printer as a foothold into the inner network.
And this process took the hacker giraffe no more than 30 minutes even though he had never
hacked a printer before.
Thankfully, thehackergiraffe was a nice hacker and he used his hacker powers for good.
He’s the latest of several pewdiepie fans to go to extreme lengths to help pewdiepie
remain the most subscribed youtuber.
Another youtuber Justin Roberts bought a 1 million dollar billboard in times square in
support of felix.
It says Keep PewdiePie Number one on youtube.
What would you do to keep pewdiepie in the top spot?
Let me know in those comments.
For now I’m going to respond to some comments from our video Youtube is getting an amazing
new feature.
Spirit Petshops – ooo io should get a story feature.
We actually tried to use the story feature and we don’t have access to it yet.
Only around 60 thousand channels have access to the story feature but we should get it
soon.
Mykah Colantuono – charlotte!
Are you an evil potato or are you a nice potato idk.
I would say nice potato.
Sonoma Polder – I love you charlotte and your instagram account is bomb as F. Ohh thanks
very much for following me on insta you are the bEST
Vidyeah – I just wanted to listen to music from youtube after I lock my phone damn.
Dude I wish I feel like that feature is never coming.
Jon joe – I don’t like charlotte dobre.
Why not?
I like you.
Maliha – I wonder if charlottes tongue can touch her nose.
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