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YOUTUBE CHANNEL SCAMS
YouTube Channel Hacking Scams on the Rise
Users are tricked into downloading malicious files by scammers, who steal session tokens, allowing the scammers to take over the channels and use them for crypto scams or ransom demands.
A YouTube channel owner with over 15 million subscribers watched in horror as his channel name was changed and all his videos deleted while a livestream of Elon Musk talking about cryptocurrency played on the channel. In the livestream chat, there were links to a phishing website that promised to “double your cryptocurrency”.
Butt naked at 3 am, the owner of Linus Tech Tips ran around frantically trying to regain control of his channel and make sense of what was happening. After a few nerve-racking hours, the channel was freed from the scammers and restored to its original state by YouTube.
Recently, popular Indian YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia, also known as BeerBiceps, fell victim to the same scam.
The scammers did not gain access to their YouTube account passwords, but they had control of their channels. How?
