Pirated copies of Michael Wolf's tell-all Trump novel may be granting hackers access to readers PCs, potentially leaving them vulnerable to banking and identity fraud.
Booby-trapped PDF versions of the book appear almost exactly like the original with red typeface and a photo of Mr Trump on its cover. But the spoof version, which is being shared online, has only 230 pages, instead of 328, readers have been warned.
It is unclear who is circulating the PDF, but malware of this kind typically targets devices and installs keyloggers to try and steal personal details like banking logins or email account passwords.
The malware-laden PDF is detected by anti-virus software, so those who have downloaded a version can run a scan to check that their devices are protected.
Mr Trump has described the book as "full of lies" and claimed that its author is "mentally deranged". But Wolff, who has also penned a biography of newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch, insists that he spent "hours" in conversation with the president after gaining access to the White House in the early days of his administration.
But protestations appeared to do nothing but stoke appetite for the novel. Within two days of going on sale, 29,000 physical copies, 100,000 audio books and a further quarter of a million e-book versions of the book were sold in the United States.
Wolff's Fire and Fury, which offers a fly-on-the-wall account of life inside the White House since Mr Trump took up presidency in 2016, is currently at the top of Amazon's charts.
Mr Molsner is an employee at Kaspersky Labs, a Moscow-based antivirus software provider that is currently weathering a "geopolitical storm" in which it stands accused of allowing Russian spies a backdoor into official US government computers.
In December, Kaspersky filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the decision to ban the use of its products in federal systems.
“It is true. It is literally all true. This book is Donald Trump in full.”
Michael Wolff set Washington and President Trump’s administration on fire with his new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” The president even threatened to sue the controversial New York media reporter to prevent the book from being published. Instead, Trump’s backlash led to record sales.
“Nobody believes this, but I went into this project without a preconception,” Wolff told me, “without an assumption about whether Donald Trump would be successful or would be a failure.” The latest episode of “Cape Up” is a replay of an event we did together on Jan. 18 at the historic Sixth & I synagogue in conjunction with the Politics and Prose bookstore of Washington. https://soundcloud.com/washington-post/michael-wolff-in-depth-on-his-unprecedented-access-to-trump/s-Le0S1
Most of the hour-long conversation focused on his incredible access to the White House and his sources. How was it that he could sit in the West Wing lobby, sometimes for hours on end, without anyone being alarmed. “I had a lot of meetings with Steve [Bannon], and Steve was one of the pillars of this book,” Wolff said, “but I basically met with everybody, and everybody was under the impression that they were supposed to meet with me.
“I think on one level nobody quite knew how this came about and everybody look a little puzzled by things,” said Wolff. “But there was no friction here. Nobody was saying, ‘What are you doing here?’” And once he sat down with White House officials, Wolff said his job was easy. “I don’t ask questions,” Wolff said. “I go in and I sit there and people just start to talk.”
Listen to the podcast to hear Wolff talk about the separate camps in the White House doing battle with each other, his history with Trump around New York City, Trump’s frequent calls to “his kitchen cabinet of billionaires,” his conversation with the president about the rumored “pee tape,” and hear how he teases a shocking “read between the lines” nugget near the end of the book that Bill Maher would do an even better job of getting him to reveal days later.
When I asked him what he would say to the president if he were to call him, Wolff was pretty certain of how the conversation would go. “The thing about talking to Donald Trump is that you never get to say anything to him,” Wolff told the audience. “But I predict that actually what he will say sooner rather than later is that he is responsible for this book, its successful because of him, and he is the real writer of this book.”
“Cape Up” is Jonathan’s weekly podcast talking to key figures behind the news and our culture. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever else you listen to podcasts.
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