October 20, 2021 By Lisa Vaas
Google has caught and brushed off a bunch of cookie-stealing YouTube channel hijackers who were running cryptocurrency scams on, or auctioning off, ripped-off channels.
Google has caught and brushed off a bunch of cookie-stealing YouTube channel hijackers who were running cryptocurrency scams on the ripped-off channels.
In a Wednesday post, Ashley Shen, with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), said that TAG attributes the assaults to a group of attackers recruited from a Russian-speaking forum. Since late 2019, they’ve been luring targets with fake collaboration come-ons, including requests to purchase ads on their targets’ channels.
