Youtube
Rising wave of cyber-attacks targeting YouTube content creators
In today’s digital age, YouTube has become a platform where individuals, especially those between the ages of 14 and 33, are not just consuming content but actively creating it. From cooking tutorials and gaming streams to travel vlogs and tech reviews, the variety is endless. Aspiring content creators flood the platform daily with their unique […]
YouTube offers AI Chatbot assistance for hacked accounts
Creating YouTube videos has evolved from a trend into a necessity, especially for Gen-Z, who increasingly use videos as a way to express themselves and gain quick popularity. However, what happens if a YouTube account gets hacked? Fortunately, those affected can now turn to YouTube’s AI-based Hacked Channel Assistant available through the YouTube Help Center. […]
YouTube being used by hackers to spread Malware
When you’re casually browsing through YouTube channels and encounter a tempting link in the description, think twice before clicking. There’s a rising trend where these links can lead unsuspecting users straight into the jaws of malware. As the demand for game cracks surges among youngsters, cybercriminals are capitalizing on this trend to distribute malicious software. […]
YouTube becomes a heaven to info stealing malware
Whenever we see a YouTube video that is informative, we tend to go through the description or ‘show more’ feature and have a habit of clicking on the links. What if the link leads us to a website that is a malware dropper? A new report by cloud security firm CloudSEK says that there has […]
YouTube acting as a heaven to online fraudsters fake Cryptocurrency giveaways
YouTube, Google’s most trusted video sharing platform, is in news for all the wrong reasons. As per a research conducted by threat intelligence firm Group IB, fraudsters are using 36-40 fake YouTube Streams to attract over 200,000 viewers with fake cryptocurrency giveaways. According to the survey conducted by the Singapore-based security vendor, 67 people have […]
Google down outage not because of cyber attack
From the early hours of Monday, i.e. December 14th,2020 many of the uses using Google’s online services experienced a downtime for almost two hours. And as soon as the services of the web search giant went down, people searched is “Google down” or for any Google Outage. Reacting to such queries, the internet juggernaut issued […]
Information of nearly 235 million TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube users hacked
Information related to nearly 235 million TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube users were accessed by hackers when they targeted a database belonging to Social Data, a company that sells data related to social media influencers to various Marketing firms. The data hack news was published in Comparitech’s latest security report where the company’s researcher Bob Diachenko […]
Cyber Attack did not cause Google, Youtube, Snapchat and Gmail downtime
Google oriented web services such as YouTube, Google Photos, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and Vimeo were disrupted for almost 4 hours late Sunday. But on contrary to the ongoing rumors that the services were hit by a cyber attack, the Alphabet Inc, subsidiary has issued a press statement that the downtime was caused by a […]
YouTuber PewDiePie fans target victims with ransomware for 100m subscribers
Fans of YouTuber PewDiePie who happen to be hackers are seen targeting victims with ransomware and found displaying notices to inform victims that a decryption key will only be issued to them when the said YouTube Channel reaches 100m subscribers. Some of those hackers have also tweeted that if in case the Indian Bollywood channel […]
Google throws net neutrality into the air and starts censoring search results for good
Google has started censoring search results says a source from American news website Breitbart and all this is being done for ‘Good’ or for the sake of civility. Its said that the internet juggernaut has started to manually curate search terms and has started to blacklist those which are termed as offending or politically incorrect. […]
