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YouTube is currently experiencing a worldwide outage, with thousands of reports saying they cannot access live streams. While the company has yet to acknowledge the issue, user reports shared on DownDetector show that most of those affected by this ongoing outage have problems with video streaming and accessing the YouTube website.
Malwarebytes has addressed an issue that prevented users from accessing websites and services hosted on the google.com domain, including Google search and Youtube. According to a large number of reports from people affected by this, their browsers were prevented from accessing Google sites after Malwarebytes flagged and blocked them as malicious.
Google and its Youtube domains are being flagged as malicious by Malwarebytes as of Wednesday morning, blocking users from accessing a whole range of websites. "Malwarebytes is aware of a temporary issue with the web filtering component of our product that may be blocking certain domains, including google.com," a Malwarebytes spokesperson told The Register.
A new malware bundle uses victims' YouTube channels to upload malicious video tutorials advertising fake cheats and cracks for popular video games to spread the malicious package further. The self-spreading malware bundle has been promoted in YouTube videos targeting fans playing FIFA, Final Fantasy, Forza Horizon, Lego Star Wars, and Spider-Man.
Gamers looking for cheats on YouTube are being targeted with links to malicious password-protected archive files designed to install the RedLine Stealer malware and crypto miners on compromised machines. "The videos advertise cheats and cracks and provide instructions on hacking popular games and software," Kaspersky security researcher Oleg Kupreev said in a new report published today.
Google and its YouTube subsidiary have joined other social media networks pledging to keep the 2022 US midterm elections safe and free from Russian trolls - and anyone else spewing democracy-damaging disinformation - by taking down such content. The election strategies follow Google's move to ban MAGA message-board Truth Social from its Play store until the app removes content that incites violence.
Scammers were able to convince YouTube that other peoples' music was their own. No one knows how common this scam is, and how much money total is being stolen in this way.
A scarily realistic-looking Google Search YouTube advertisement is redirecting visitors to tech support scams pretending to be security alerts from Windows Defender. Today, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes disclosed that they discovered a "Major" malvertising campaign abusing Google ads.
The malware pretends to be a free Bitcoin mining application, which advertises and can be downloaded via a Youtube video. In an additional attempt to appear more legitimate, the threat actor adds a link to VirusTotal which shows antivirus results for a clean file that is not the malware.
British Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked and altered to promote online crypto scams sometime yesterday. Notably, the army's verified Twitter account began displaying fake NFTs and bogus crypto giveaway schemes.