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
Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
I just missed these announcements for last week’s “Because It’s Friday”. NASA has released the first scientific infrared images produced by the James Webb Space Telescope: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope | NASA Senior Project Scientist John Mather Reflects on Journey to Webb’s First Images – James …
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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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Anonymous browsing – not anymore
Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have written a paper, which they will present at the Usenix Security Symposium in Boston, demonstrating how threat actors (or governments or law enforcement) could de-anonymise a users from their browsing habits. The attackers would analyse browsing activity and state to determine …
Malware targets cryptocurrency wallets and browsers
The PennyWise malware is masquerading as crypto-coin mining software and being advertised in a variety of YouTube videos – showing that any communications method can be exploited for phishing attacks. PennyWise malware on YouTube targets cryptocurrency wallets and browsers | TechRepublic To help build confidence in the product, the threat …
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