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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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the WAN show. Every Friday - and now Saturdays too! 

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Any software dev worth their salt (pun intended) know, deep down, tokens/cookies/whatever are more dangerous than passwords. Passwords are only good for changing passwords.

 

In my opinion, the cookie store of browsers should be more secure than the password store. As in - NO executable should ever be able to access it unless it created it - especially an executable downloaded after the store was created.

 

Edit: Another security factor is tying tokens to IP address. Not perfect, but adds another attack vector requirement. This is very embarrassing for Google, not LTT!

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Hi just want to put that here  : 
 

Please make that known your youtube unlisted video's descriptions are still f'ed up for exemple the : Minecraft on with the intro for pewdipie's build It is : Double your xrypto with elon Musk https://bullshitwebsite.net

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4 minutes ago, Laynord said:

Hi just want to put that here  : 
 

Please make that known your youtube unlisted video's descriptions are still f'ed up for exemple the : Minecraft on with the intro for pewdipie's build It is : Double your xrypto with elon Musk https://bullshitwebsite.net

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More vids with fucked up descriptions:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zpKHvEKXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgK1o5ytXr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fle55mZ_WQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2UaipfsR7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9MrFyEF5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgK1o5ytXr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t03rmc-prJo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdp09SYhCc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNakbNjdrjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qixXsJBmyd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAiXzKOTNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ueel1wXnZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E44CQ-8ooI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJak0Y7X80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXQzLbDrgs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLC9rZ2e0Ms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwc9vy6BIII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BLU-tnFOXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQtusd8deU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBJ-vo6Ri9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbjURh01yXo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blU_2wIMT4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7fe_LXK93E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E8IGy6I9Wo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMTs5bvAsGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gbfvJDsv4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eALWqNZh1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkmZGFEpd5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0l6ZSxfTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRwDkyStFzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk97ywS-fGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzmYsySGFQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTh-7JYsp5k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TwfM3s2Wdw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MYOpFONCU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXIOuUUZO2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWOCCuL6maE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ_8F4nzyiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsdqfcCx5C8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZBIeM2zE-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hxr9k5Vdc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0VddWcJDe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-9Rw5CJNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUqBk17tAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFE9wfAfudE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTiRNnSg0jA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBfGIR0NqCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1lfVm7JMFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0A83_J57w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNt_ReLwk40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6GTf6ATlho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YjMIjLLIwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVhFThazzog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR72qmzRzfQ

I might post more afterwards in the edits.

 

Edit: Turns out caching will make this a lot more difficult, so now I gotta also strike-through the links that are actually correct.

Edit 2: Looks like all the links I've provided have been fixed. So all of this for absolute fuck all.

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3 minutes ago, Red 🙂 said:

More vids with fucked up descriptions:

I might post more afterwards.

The descriptions on all of those videos are correct. Are you visiting the video page to check the description or are you looking at the description that appears in a search result? The YouTube search result displays a cached version of the description which may not have updated yet. 

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Just now, Spotty said:

The descriptions on all of those videos are correct. Are you visiting the video page to check the description or are you looking at the description that appears in a search result? The YouTube search result displays a cached version of the description which may not have updated yet. 

oh, I see, that might've become a problem

and to answer the question, yes, I've only looked at the search results

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My specs are crap but if you are interested:

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So this vid claim to be the hacker. I haven't clicked it as I don't wanna give traffic to it, whether it's the hacker or some opportunist who wanna go viral. 

 

Anyone know more about this? 

Screenshot_20230325_165235_YouTube.jpg

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22 hours ago, Spotty said:

 

If you were that concerned about this type of attack you would simply just use a separate machine or VM to open the attachment, which is far more user friendly than logging out of all of your accounts every time you want to open a file (which you might do hundreds of times throughout the day).

Good advice. I would probably use the VM for interacting with youtube though.

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I went on vacation for one week, ONE WEEK, and this happens when I have better things to do than watch YT shenanigans...

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1 hour ago, DeerDK said:

So this vid claim to be the hacker. I haven't clicked it as I don't wanna give traffic to it, whether it's the hacker or some opportunist who wanna go viral. 

 

Anyone know more about this? 

Screenshot_20230325_165235_YouTube.jpg

Could be just trying to brag without actually doing anything.

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Decided to talk in this thread after lurking for too long, one of the peeps that also witnessed all the craziness at the day it happened (Discovered about the hack at 5:20PM Thursday GMT+7 from Discord). Glad that they got it back really quick, like 17 hours of channel recovery is quick but that's mostly due to LMG reputation as well, although they still had to go through another stressful process of fully recovering channel and video details (descriptions, channel name, etc) along with setting up security measures after the hijack. Can't really say anything other than wishing you all, not just LMG staff but also LTT Forum/ Discord staff hell even LMG social media manager good health and better days ahead, you guys really deserve a short break after handling this, dare I say, supermassive channel hijack. Social engineering is ultimate bitch and session token stealing doesn't help with the situation at all, and the crazy thing is that one is unstoppable force and you can't easily tell, the other one can be worked out but eventually bad actors would still find a workaround for it 

 

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7 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

Could be just trying to brag without actually doing anything.

Possibly. I really don't wanna click the vid. In any case they don't deserve the click 

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The logo of Tesla still shows up and doesn’t go away after refreshing. It’s on an iPhone YouTube. 

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The techquickie and techlinked channels show the correct logo for me, screenshot taken 26th March. 

 

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If you're using the YouTube app try clearing the apps cache through your phones app settings. 

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12 hours ago, LeoLehane said:

I'm not sure if everyone has already noticed, but the people behind LTT'S recent hack have changed some of the video descriptions to include " Double your crypto with tesla!" and the link to the scam webiste. I have enclosed a picture of evidence. the weird thing is, I couldn't find the edited part of the description when I clicked on the video.... 

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There's no reason to post new threads for related subjects. Also, please be sure to actually click on video to see if its actually wrong or just caching error. If you find videos which are actually still wrong, do give links so we can alert LMG.

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22 minutes ago, Spotty said:

The techquickie and techlinked channels show the correct logo for me, screenshot taken 26th March. 

 

Screenshot_20230326-051240_Chrome.jpg

Screenshot_20230326-050931_Chrome.jpg

 

If you're using the YouTube app try clearing the apps cache through your phones app settings. 

lol for some reason even on a fresh chrome install or even on a YT that never opened up LTT videos it's still showing that tesla logo and even the name plus the old scam description, not that I don't know it's just a cache error but it's annoying regardless

 

Video search from channel does seems to not having that issue though, and it can shows result based on whats in the description (THANK GOD because I think this wasn't the case back then, at least for me, idk it never worked) so it's a good way to hunt for videos that are still having the scam in the description, and of course I found two examples from that. Checked from regular and incognito, both shows the same so yep it's still not changed for these two example and not cache error

 

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59 minutes ago, Spotty said:

The techquickie and techlinked channels show the correct logo for me, screenshot taken 26th March. 

I noticed this as well, it shows the proper logo on the channel page itself.
BUT, when SEARCHING for the channels themselves, it shows the Tesla logo. Both on desktop and mobile.

 

This is just techlinked, but it's the same for Tech Quickie. Notice how the logo is correct under the "we got hacked, 413k views".

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My guess is that Youtube's caching servers for channel logos in the Search is somehow slower/different. But it is certainly an issue.

 

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3 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

I noticed this as well, it shows the proper logo on the channel page itself.
BUT, when SEARCHING for the channels themselves, it shows the Tesla logo. Both on desktop and mobile.

 

This is just techlinked, but it's the same for Tech Quickie. Notice how the logo is correct under the "we got hacked, 413k views".

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My guess is that Youtube's caching servers for channel logos in the Search is somehow slower/different. But it is certainly an issue.

 

Ah. I was visiting the channels directly (from the forum side panel). If I use the search it's showing the Tesla icons for me as well.

There's been a few reports of the search results (particularly video descriptions) not being up to date. It seems like the search result data is cached. I have no idea how long it would normally take for that to refresh and update but hopefully it's one of those things that will just correct itself.

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5 hours ago, DeerDK said:

So this vid claim to be the hacker. I haven't clicked it as I don't wanna give traffic to it, whether it's the hacker or some opportunist who wanna go viral. 

 

Anyone know more about this? 

-snip-

samtime is a comedy channel so I highly doubt that it's real

(also in the desc it says this:)image.thumb.png.ff70b79a3206c0d254f074c26ce1963d.png

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My specs are crap but if you are interested:

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The meme-making machine - Optiplex 780:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz

GPU: NVidia Quadro FX 580

RAM: 2 GB

SSD: Non-existent

HDD: 1 TB

OS: Windows 7

 

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1 hour ago, Spotty said:

Ah. I was visiting the channels directly (from the forum side panel). If I use the search it's showing the Tesla icons for me as well.

There's been a few reports of the search results (particularly video descriptions) not being up to date. It seems like the search result data is cached. I have no idea how long it would normally take for that to refresh and update but hopefully it's one of those things that will just correct itself.

Same issue for me via search. Would like to point out that I don't believe I have ever watched a video on Tech Quickie or Tech Linked channels, just the main Linus Tech Tips channel. I assume this is caching on Youtube side.

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30 minutes ago, Red 🙂 said:

samtime is a comedy channel so I highly doubt that it's real

(also in the desc it says this:)image.thumb.png.ff70b79a3206c0d254f074c26ce1963d.png

Thanks. It makes sense then. I knew that there probably was someone in this community who knew what was what. 

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5 minutes ago, Captain_Hindsight said:

No cache issue

It is a cache issue, on youtube's side.

 

Seems they cache searches for extended periods of time. 

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