Malware News Cyberattackers Hide Infostealers in YouTube Comments

[Captain Awesome]

Content source

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/cyberattackers-infostealers-youtube-comments-google-search

Attackers are targeting people interested in pirated and cracked software downloads by abusing YouTube and Google search results.

Cyberattackers Hide Infostealers in YouTube Comments

Threat actors are targeting people searching for pirated or cracked software with fake downloaders that include infostealing malware such as Lumma and Vidar.

www.darkreading.com

 

[Victor M]

" As shown by the threat activity, attackers continue to use social engineering tactics to target victims and apply a variety of methods to avoid security defenses, including: using large installer files, password-protected zip files, connections to legitimate websites, and creating copies of files and renaming them to appear benign, "

 

[lockeddown]

It is so old back in 2012 (I was still at school) i download a fake fifa 2 online coin generator ( bad mistake)
From a YouTube comment .
i just really wanted the advantage that people with money have .
But i already know how stuff works and let my guard down
so my google account got hacked . ( it happened at my home PC)
So i opened the file in net reflector and got the "clown" email and pass
i got into his account and changed the pass .
It was so funny cause i know i gonna get hacked i am playing with fire sometimes .