South Korean YouTube channels with millions of subscribers have reportedly drawn the attention of cryptocurrency scammers.
Hackers have reportedly attacked several big-name South Korean YouTube channels in the past few months. After gaining access, most wrongdoers used the platform to upload cryptocurrency-related videos.
To add to the confusion, the scammers posted videos of interviews where the world’s richest talked about bitcoin and other digital currencies. However, the government was quick to react and identified the fraud a few hours later.Individual YouTube channels were also compromised. After breaching the security of a popular one with over 560,000 subscribers, hackers started sharing videos of illegal software that investors could download and assumingly become rich.
“Each organization should check their security response system as now may be an experimenting period for bigger attacks,” he warned. “If the attack was on the YouTube platform itself, the damage may have been bigger, and Google would have released an official announcement.”attacked
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