{"id":37659,"date":"2014-09-03T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mcafee.com\/?p=37659"},"modified":"2025-05-28T23:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:08:11","slug":"celebgate-long-dangerous-celebrity-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/celebgate-long-dangerous-celebrity-list\/","title":{"rendered":"CelebGate: a Long, Dangerous List of Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the past few days, the media has been abuzz with the massive celebrity photo leak nicknamed <em>CelebGate 2014<\/em>. The story started on August 31 when the first nude pictures appeared on a 4chan board. An alarming\u00a0list of victims has been posted.<\/p>\n<h2>Fake or True?<\/h2>\n<p>Fake or true, today almost 450 pictures and videos are circulating on 4chan, Reddit, or Imgur in connection with this story. A Google search for \u201c<em>CelebGate\u00a02014<\/em>&#8221; returns more than 1.4 million URLs. While some netsurfers work at posting them, website administrators work at deleting them.<\/p>\n<p>The forums are inflamed, and dedicated websites are popping up to expose these photos.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, malicious software is never far from such stories. Searching for these real or fake pictures is a dangerous sport. Behind the URLs you can discover via Google or dedicated forums, most of these paths are dangerous. Your chance of landing on a page that tests positive for spam, adware, spyware, viruses, or other malware is almost a sure thing.<\/p>\n<p>My first two attempts infected my test computer.<br \/>\nAfter I disabled my antivirus for 10 minutes to easily browse, I was (not) surprised to detect 10 or more new infections (in the following case several Trojans).<br \/>\nIn 2013, McAfee made a list of the 10 most dangerous celebrities. 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