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Oct 20, 2021 · In some cases the hackers impersonated known quantities like Cisco VPN and Steam games, or pretended to be media outlets focused on Covid-19. Google says it’s found over 1,000 domains to date ...
Oct 21, 2021 · Oct 21, 2021, 9:58 AM PDT. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google put out a report detailing a phishing campaign directed at YouTubers, which involved around 15,000 fake accounts and over ...
- Mitchell Clark
Sep 23, 2019 · To pull off a hijacking, the hackers perform aggressive phishing operations towards the YouTube account they’re interested in. The account owner will typically receive a phishing-style email ...
Oct 21, 2021 · The campaign, apparently being carried out by hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, uses "fake collaboration opportunities" to attract YouTubers, then hijacks their channel using a "pass ...
- Andy Chalk
Oct 20, 2021 · Since late 2019, our team has disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting YouTubers with Cookie Theft malware. The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, lure their target with fake collaboration opportunities (typically a demo for anti-virus software, VPN ...
Sep 23, 2019 · High-profile YouTubers have been targeted by cybercriminals over the weekend in what appears to have been a highly coordinated and "massive" attack. The security warning was made by Catalin ...
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Jul 1, 2024 · Nothing could be further from the truth, however, with the threat becoming even more acute where the accounts were not protected by two-factor authentication (2FA) or where attackers circumvented ...
