The Linus Tech Tips YouTube hack is the latest in a line of crypto scam breaches | Crypto Craft

  • The Linus Tech Tips YouTube hack is the latest in a line of crypto scam breaches

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    Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos for crypto scams instead of tech hardware reviews. It’s the latest breach in a series of high-profile YouTube accounts being hacked, with scammers regularly gaining access to prominent accounts to rename them and livestream crypto scam videos. The main Linus Tech Tips channel was breached earlier this morning, with several live videos broadcast before the hacker started making old private videos public. The account was eventually suspended, presumably as YouTube employees work to restore ... (full story)

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Goat
Mar 24, 2023 2:55pm
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Quoting Hasher
{quote} Malware to steal session cookies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A
Wow. Definitely some state-sponsored shit right there!

One cool thing about hackery migrating to the state level is we get to see its limits. I used to wonder if governments could bypass all PC security if they wanted, but now I know they're just running well-coordinated spear phishing operations. There's some relief in that!
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Hasher
Mar 24, 2023 7:00am
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Quoting Goat
How the hell are they pulling this off in 2023? Gotta be some DPRKs or Russians for this level of breach. It's so ingenious they won't even tell us how it happened!!
Malware to steal session cookies:
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Goat
Mar 24, 2023 12:39am
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How the hell are they pulling this off in 2023? Gotta be some DPRKs or Russians for this level of breach. It's so ingenious they won't even tell us how it happened!!
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