Latest YouTube news

A YouTuber is encouraging you to DDoS Russia—how risky is this?

A YouTube influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is encouraging everyone to conduct cyber warfare against Russia. How risky is it and can you get in trouble?
- Ax Sharma
- May 01, 2022
- 10:11 AM
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Fake Valorant cheats on YouTube infect you with RedLine stealer

Korean security analysts have spotted a malware distribution campaign that uses Valorant cheat lures on YouTube to trick players into downloading RedLine, a powerful information stealer.
- Bill Toulas
- March 13, 2022
- 10:06 AM
- 0
Massive campaign uses YouTube to push password-stealing malware

Widespread malware campaigns are creating YouTube videos to distribute password-stealing trojans to unsuspecting viewers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 21, 2021
- 05:10 PM
- 0
Google: YouTubers’ accounts hijacked with cookie-stealing malware

Google says YouTube creators have been targeted with password-stealing malware in phishing attacks coordinated by financially motivated threat actors since at least late 2019.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 20, 2021
- 11:49 AM
- 0
Malware campaign uses clever 'captcha' to bypass browser warning

A malware campaign uses a clever captcha prompt to trick users into bypassing browsers warnings to download the Ursnif (aka Gozi) banking trojan.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 17, 2021
- 11:00 AM
- 1
Microsoft Edge update fixes YouTube crashes, freezes

Microsoft has fixed a nasty bug that was causing the Microsoft Edge browser to crash while watching YouTube videos or reading comments.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 16, 2021
- 09:40 PM
- 0
Microsoft Edge crashes when watching full screen YouTube videos

A Microsoft Edge bug is causing the browser to become unresponsive and crash while watching YouTube videos or reading comments.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 07, 2021
- 11:01 AM
- 1
Google explains the cause of the recent YouTube, Gmail outage

Google says that the global authentication system outage which affected most consumer-facing series on Monday was caused by a bug in the automated quota management system impacting the Google User ID Service.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 19, 2020
- 11:30 AM
- 0
Google outage affecting YouTube, Gmail and more

Google users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to access Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and possibly other Google services.
- Mayank Parmar
- December 14, 2020
- 07:04 AM
- 0
YouTube-dl removed from GitHub after RIAA DMCA notice

The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) has taken down the popular Youtube-dl GitHub repositories using a DMCA takedown notice.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 23, 2020
- 06:35 PM
- 10
Google banned 2500+ Chinese YouTube channels for disinformation

Google says that it took down multiple coordinated influence operation campaigns linked to China, Russia, Iran, and Tunisia by terminating thousands of YouTube channels and several AdSense, Play Developer, and advertising accounts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 06, 2020
- 12:26 PM
- 1
Why certain characters "glitch" Gmail, YouTube, and Twitter

Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is happening, we dive into the wonderful world of Unicode that causes this behavior.
- Ax Sharma
- June 28, 2020
- 11:24 AM
- 0
AdBlock is causing YouTube video errors in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft has issued a warning about a conflict between Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, and the AdBlock Plus browser extension that causes problems when watching YouTube videos.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 24, 2020
- 02:45 PM
- 3
Fake SpaceX YouTube channels scam viewers out of $150K in bitcoin

Scammers have hijacked three YouTube channels to display bitcoin scams impersonating Elon Musk's SpaceX channel. So far, these scams have raked in close to $150,000 in bitcoins in two days.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 09, 2020
- 06:02 PM
- 0
YouTube channel credentials in high demand on hacker forums

An increasing number of offers for stolen YouTube credentials has been noted recently on hacker and cybercrime forums, where access to accounts is sold in bulk.
- Ionut Ilascu
- June 03, 2020
- 03:27 AM
- 0
YouTube borked when users enable Firefox anti-fingerprinting

Firefox users have recently started to notice that YouTube does not display videos properly when they enable the browser's anti-fingerprinting technology for better privacy.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 10, 2020
- 03:23 PM
- 1
YouTube and Amazon Also Lowering Video Quality in Europe

Following in the footsteps on Netflix, Amazon and YouTube have also agreed to lower the video streaming quality of their services to prevent European network infrastructure from becoming overburdened.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 20, 2020
- 04:14 PM
- 0
YouTube Web Site Subscriptions are Broken, Videos Not Displayed [Fixed]

A bug on the YouTube web site is telling users that the channels that they have subscribed to have not uploaded any videos yet. On mobile, though, everything is working fine.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 04, 2020
- 09:34 PM
- 0
YouTube BitCoin Videos Pushing Predator Info-Stealing Trojan

A new scam is underway on YouTube that uses videos to promote a tool that can allegedly generate the private key for a bitcoin address. The attackers then claim this key would then allow you to gain access to the bitcoins stored in the bitcoin address, when in reality the victims will be infected with a password stealing Trojan.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 12, 2019
- 06:04 AM
- 0
No, YouTube Won't Cancel Accounts That Don't Generate Revenue

A new update to the YouTube Terms of Service has users concerned that Google will cancel their account if they are deemed to be not "commercially viable". Google says this is not true and that this section of the agreement only applies towards Google services and not user accounts.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 11, 2019
- 04:25 PM
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