By abusing copyright and YouTube cyber criminals were able to steal millions of dollars of royalties. No mention is made of the profit YouTube made from the adverting revenue from these videos involved in the heist! The largest YouTube royalties heist in history spotlights a much larger problem | Mashable
Social engineering – your trust abused on YouTube
Here is a story featuring another Google product – that makes a huge profit for Google – that is being used and abused by threat actors against legitimate users: Convincing ‘YouTube’ Google ads lead to Windows support scams (bleepingcomputer.com) If you just make the YouTube videos look as though they …
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If you hold a little or a lot of sensitive data in a web app make sure it is secure!
Neopets didn’t and leaked the details of 69 million users, That is a lot of personal information to lose control of! Neopets data breach exposes personal data of 69 million members (bleepingcomputer.com) Their source code and other data was also stolen. A hacker calling themselves ‘TarTarX’ is selling the source …
Now bad reviews are becoming a cyber criminal’s choice of attack UPDATED 20 July 2022
Update 20 July 2022 – Amazon is taking positive action against fake reviews I am sure you check the reviews on Amazon products before you buy, I know I do, and it has influenced my buying decisions more than once. So it is obviously important that these can be relied …
More crypto-currency stolen!
Big numbers – lots of money – so a prime target for threat actors: Thieves pilfer $100m-plus in cryptocurrency from Harmony.one • The Register It is not the blockchain that is compromised – it is the handling processes that are vulnerable.
