Another channel gets hacked...

[Wardus]

This popped up on my youtube home page. Looks like a smaller channel. They've turned chat off, but it's promoting a crypto scam. Sorta crazy that I get to see one for myself after I missed the LTT drama.

 

Update: The stream has been taken down.

 

 

[Needfuldoer]

F

 

Any idea whose it was?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

[Mark Kaine]

How many yt channels get "hacked" per day? @Wardus

 

 

[Wardus]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

How many yt channels get "hacked" per day? @Wardus

 

 

I have no idea. I think there's a website out there that tracks it though.

[Spotty]

1 minute ago, Wardus said:

I have no idea. I think there's a website out there that tracks it though.

There was a guy that ran a website that pulled transcripts from videos and made the subtitles searchable who was able to generate a list of Youtube channels (of those that he tracks) that were hacked in a week, and it was hundreds of channels.

 

Linus discussed it on the WAN show. 46:30 mark.

 

[Mark Kaine]

On 4/24/2023 at 10:45 PM, Spotty said:

There was a guy that ran a website that pulled transcripts from videos and made the subtitles searchable who was able to generate a list of Youtube channels (of those that he tracks) that were hacked in a week, and it was hundreds of channels.

 

Linus discussed it on the WAN show. 46:30 mark.

 

i mean, then its probably 1000s or probably 100k+... i was just trying to understand the rationale behind what we're discussing, yt channels get "hacked" (not actually hacked) all the time ... So if anything it would be interesting to discuss the how ig? (probably "clicked on the wrong link from wrong king that wrote me an email" kinda stuff)

[Poinkachu]

15 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

i mean, then its probably 1000s or probably 100k+... i was just trying to understand the rationale behind what we're discussing, yt channels get "hacked" (not actually hacked) all the time ... So if anything it would be interesting to discuss the how ig? (probably "clicked on the wrong link from wrong king that wrote me an email" kinda stuff)

Eh, most likely the same way LTT did.

Received an email from what seems a company that wants to advertise something, opened the file they sent, then session token grabbed.

 

I found it funny that youtube doesn't ask for password / pin / 2fa when a user wants to change something on the channel settings / videos.

[Wardus]

Just found another one... bigger this time.

[Wardus]

And yet another.