Walang Problema. Controversial yet innocently coy clothing line? Or underdog Robin Hood white knight cover company making a mockery of every major headline in the last 5 years? Or both?
We hope both, and we’re sure you will too when you hear the latest and greatest news coming out of the WP press-room.
It took less than two weeks for the anti-establishment stock market superstars to attract the attention of cyberphiles near and far. And these days, it seems that cyber-attacks aren’t solely limited to banks and political elections.
WP’s new t-shirt campaigns have made it one of the most profitable companies since the pandemic. The rise in sales resulted in a rise in stock market value. And as with any overnight rags to riches success story comes a rise in jealous competitors. Back in the olden days, before ‘corona’ and ‘quarantine’ were household terms, corporate rivals would usually settle for a slur campaign to cripple their enemies, but these are not ordinary times. And as economies drown, desperate capitalists seek desperate measures.
This attack comes just after the decision of WP company of saying NO to Trump
One such company even went as far as taking a page right out of the playbook of everyone’s least favorite ex-president. Who knew that computer hackers would have a comeback bigger than Robert Downey Jr’s career? It started off slow, the spike in merchandise sales. Specifically those concerning a spray-tanned bigot and his ‘rooster’. Which came as no surprise after their recent very public break up . Then sales seemed to be increasing at an unexplained rate and eventually at an unbelievable rate.
But how they realized about the attack?
We’re not sure exactly when the Walang Problema sales team noticed the irregularity. And maybe we never will because at about the same time, online shoppers around the world were slammed with pop-up ads about WP. One such ad read “Their goal is broader: to sow societal discord and erode public confidence in the use of government. By flooding social media with false reports, conspiracy theories, and trolls, and by exploiting existing divisions, Walang Problema is trying to breed distrust of our democratic institutions” These were no light accusations and yet they served a high power.
The cyber-attack on WP’s online franchise felt oddly familiar and came at a strange time. Some theories suggested that the Russian cyber military unit Sandworm was recruited to bankrupt the company by exploiting their greed and generating millions of fake purchases. Other conspirators swear to the cryptocurrency gods that WP had prepared for such an attack. So much so that they even recruited infamous Russian hacker Sergey Glazunov to orchestrate a diversion tactic hack so clever even the hackers didn’t notice!
Sources may or may not have mentioned something about “bypassing the browser’s sandbox restrictions” creating a backdoor that most certainly backfired. Because as we’ve said before, there’s no rush thing as bad publicity, and the WP sales and marketing team most certainly know it. So, was it all another ruse to gain headlines? Or does Walang Problema have some problemas? Well, only time (and sales) will tell.