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Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked

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The Linus Tech Tips, TechLinked, and TechQuickie Youtube channels have been restored.

A video explaining what happened is now up:

 

 

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Thanks for the concern everyone. We are still in recovery mode over here and working with YouTube to get everything restored. Will hopefully have a video (or at least an update on WAN Show) to share with you all ASAP, but we want to make sure we get the details right since smaller channels may rely on our experience to help harden their own security.

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now all the videos are going dark.

 

listed videos are either going private are removed.

 

youtube needs to fix this asap

 

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Same also got the notification and recognized it immediately as a scam but didn't expect it to be LTT.

 

Rip

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Okay cool someone made this, lol woke up checked to see if I missed any videos from last night and boooooom scam. Hope you guys can recover everything quickly and without much loss!

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One of his editors downloaded some forbidden fruits from the malware.

Cookies get hijacked and goodbye to your channel.

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Same. Another youtuber I watch had this happen to them a couple of weeks back and posted how they did it - 

 

 

TLDW: Apparently it was a fake proposal that sent all the browser cookies to the attacker who promptly changed their password and 2FA. And is why you should enable https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/.

 

This weeks' WAN show could be interesting....

 

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Can't wait for the 7000 threads to pop up in the next hour asking if the channel got hacked rofl

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Something is wrong. Showing last video with Linus was 2 weeks ago and Elon Musk is live right now. Really concerned about this.

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Confirmed, The Linus Tech Tips channel got hacked.

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Just now, OliTheBear said:

Same. Another youtuber I watch had this happen to them a couple of weeks back and posted how they did it - 

 

 

TLDW: Apparently it was a fake proposal that sent all the browser cookies to the attacker who promptly changed their password and 2FA. And is why you should enable https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/.

 

This weeks' WAN show could be interesting....

 

yes it will IF they get it fixed before ..

 

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Seems to be removing videos too? That's gonna be a pain.

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Reported too, let's hope YT acts fast and in this case straight up grants the original channel name back as well as I've seen cases where the original owner got their channel back but had to wait X weeks before they could change the name back to the original name.

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The classic crypto scam channel takeover. I've seen this happen to a few channels in the last few months. They typically got it sorted out pretty quickly. I hope LTT does aswell.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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Almost a year's worth of videos are already gone.

 

Well, at least there's something to talk about on WAN Show this week?

  

8 minutes ago, solado said:

One of his editors downloaded some forbidden fruits from the malware.

If editors have the login to the main channel, that's a big oof.

 

This is why they need to hire someone to handle their corporate infrastructure and cybersecurity.

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2 minutes ago, CloseKoR said:

I didn’t know the best place to put this, but just got a notification for one of those BS Tesla crypto streams, I clicked on it, and it directed me to the LTT channel, but a LOT of the info has been changed to seem legitimate, attached the best screen shot I could grab to represent what I meant. 
 

Hopefully someone is having a really early morning this morning at LTT… 

 

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Side note, just realized that the thumbnail says “the system is down”, definitely not intentional 😂

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3 minutes ago, betav17 said:

They Jst started Another LIVE 

 

OLD VIDEOS ARE DISAPPERARING 

might made them private

YT can restore even deleted video's so no worries there tbh. But yeah they are streaming that 20(?) minute Elon Musk Bitcoin video that has been making the rounds on hacked channels.

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Just now, sajksteen said:

yeah seems like whoever got ahold of the channel is deleting the videos aswell 😞

They are not deleted, they are all set to unlisted.

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