Massive wave of account hijacks hits YouTube creators

mood · Sep 22, 2019

Massive wave of account hijacks hits YouTube creators
appears to be a coordinated attack
September 23, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/massive-wave-of-account-hijacks-hits-youtube-creators/

Over the past few days, a massive wave of account hijacks has hit YouTube users, and especially creators in the auto-tuning and car review community, a ZDNet investigation discovered following a tip from one of our readers.

Several high-profile accounts from the YouTube creators car community have fallen victim to these attacks already. The list includes channels such as Built [Instagram post, YouTube channel], Troy Sowers [Instagram post, YouTube channel], MaxtChekVids [YouTube channel], PURE Function [Instagram post, YouTube Support post, YouTube channel], and Musafir [Instagram post, YouTube channel].

[...] especially over the weekend, with tens of complaints flooding Twitter [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and many more] and the YouTube support forum [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and many more].
COORDINATED CAMPAIGN BYPASSED 2FA
The account hacks are the result of a coordinated campaign that consisted of messages luring users to phishing sites, where hackers logged account credentials.
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Minimalist · Sep 24, 2019

Google pushes back on scale of YouTube phishing threat

YouTube’s owner Google has pushed back against suggestions that up to 23 million user accounts on the video platform may be at risk of falling victim to a targeted phishing campaign, following a number of reports of high-profile influencers – many but not all of them active within the online car tuning and modification community – having their accounts compromised.
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https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252471181/Google-pushes-back-on-scale-of-YouTube-phishing-threat

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