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Cash App Scammers Deal Their Cons on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube

Fraudsters taking advantage of the legitimate 'free money' campaigns for the Cash App peer-to-peer payment service target users Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube with fake promises of financial gains.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 24, 2019
- 10:30 AM
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Windows Activator Bundles Banker with C2 in YouTube Description

In their effort to hide the command and control (C2) server addresses, operators of a banking trojan placed them in fake websites and in descriptions for YouTube videos.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 03, 2019
- 06:14 AM
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Google Expands Privacy Controls Across Youtube, Maps, and Assistant

Google has announced new privacy and security features that allow you to use incognito mode in more properties, monitor your saved passwords for compromises, and manage how your data is used on YouTube.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 02, 2019
- 06:29 AM
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Malicious Browser Extensions Used by Hackers for Ad Fraud

Researchers unearthed a new and highly prolific malware framework used by its creators to generate over one billion fraudulent ad impressions over a time span of just three months.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 18, 2019
- 12:31 PM
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Mozilla Firefox Adding a New Social Tracking Protection Feature

Mozilla plans on adding a new dedicated social tracking protection component to their tracker protection system. This feature is currently under development, but is targeted for the Firefox 70 release.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 12, 2019
- 03:30 AM
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Google Chrome Tests New Play Controls for YouTube Videos

Google Chrome is testing a new feature called Global Media Controls that allows you to open a small overlay window that contains playback controls and information about a YouTube video you are watching.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 07, 2019
- 10:37 AM
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YouTube Bitcoin Scams Pushing the njRAT Backdoor InfoStealer

YouTube scams are promoting software that pretends to allow users to get free Bitcoins, but instead installs the njRAT remote access Trojan and password stealer.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 26, 2019
- 11:05 AM
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Epic Games Sues YouTuber CBV for Selling Fortnite Cheats

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Epic Games is suing a YouTuber who goes by the name CBV for allegedly selling cheats Fornite and ruining the game for other users.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 20, 2019
- 04:30 PM
- 0
Tech Art Piece Delivers Quick Fix For Social Following Hoarders

An art installation created by Belgium artist Dries Depoorter and commissioned by the Pixelache in Helsinki allows one to easily buy followers and likes on the Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter social networking platforms.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 07, 2019
- 03:30 AM
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Google Outage in Eastern U.S. Affecting Gmail, YouTube, and More

Network issues in the eastern part of the United State are causing outages in Google Cloud and the Google Compute Engine and the services that rely on them. This is causing problems connecting and using G Suite, Gmail, YouTube, and even third-party services such as Snapchat and Discord.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 02, 2019
- 06:38 PM
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Microsoft Windows Terminal YouTube Video Removed for Copyright Claim

Oops. The launch video for Microsoft's Windows Terminal was removed from YouTube due to a copyright infringement claim from MusicBed.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 30, 2019
- 12:53 PM
- 2
YouTube Cryptocurrency Videos Pushing Info-Stealing Trojan

A scam and malware campaign is underway on YouTube that uses videos to promote a "bitcoin generator" tool that promises to generate free bitcoins for its users. In reality, this scam is pushing the Qulab information-stealing and clipboard hijacking Trojan.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 29, 2019
- 03:45 PM
- 0
Google Says They Are Committed To Supporting YouTube on Edge

Google confirmed that the company is aware of the new YouTube not working with the Chromium Edge web browser and that it is committed to supporting Microsoft's browser.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 28, 2019
- 06:23 PM
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Scammers Try to Trick YouTubers Into Giving Up Password

A scammer looking to take over a YouTube account got a big fat nothing by targeting the owner of a channel that saw right through the fraud and spread the word about the attempt.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 08, 2019
- 03:10 AM
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YouTube Disables Comments on Videos with Young Children

YouTube announced that comments on videos featuring young minors are being disabled all across the platform to counteract predatory behavior, with only a few exceptions where the YouTube team will closely work with the channels to actively moderate comments.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 28, 2019
- 02:56 PM
- 0
New Scam Holds YouTube Channels for Ransom

Scammers are abusing the YouTube policy violation system by filing fake copyright infringements against content creators until their channel is close to being suspended. These scammers then hold the channel ransom by telling YouTubers to send a payment or they will file another copyright infringement to have the channel suspended.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 02, 2019
- 10:00 AM
- 0
Fake Survey Scammers on YouTube Have Terrible OpSec Skills

Scammers running fake survey operations may be good at social engineering, but the good thing is that they lack the technical skills to keep their infrastructure private.
- Ionut Ilascu
- January 30, 2019
- 10:05 AM
- 0
YouTube to Stop Recommending Conspiracy Theory Videos

YouTube has announced today that they will reduce recommendations of videos that promote misinformation and conspiracy theories such as the earth being flat or 9/11 never happening.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 25, 2019
- 12:35 PM
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Researchers Create Algorithm to Protect Kids from Disturbing YouTube Videos

A team of researchers has developed a high accuracy deep learning-based classifier designed to detect YouTube videos with disturbing content for kids. This was done after finding that the current recommendation algorithm used by the platform to suggest related content is quite lacking.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 23, 2019
- 01:40 PM
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Amazon, Apple, Others Hit with GDPR Complaints, €18.8B Maximum Penalties

Ten GDPR complaints were filed by noyb against Amazon, Apple, DAZN, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Flimmit, Netflix with the Austrian Data Protection Authority for violations of Article 15, with a maximum penalty across all complaints of €18.8 billion
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 18, 2019
- 12:50 PM
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