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The thread discusses cybersecurity threats linked to YouTube, with the first post highlighting malware that exploits popular gaming videos to distribute the RedLine Infostealer via compromised accounts. Subsequent posts shift focus to dissatisfaction with YouTube's advertising, with users expressing that there are too many ads and mentioning tools to watch videos offline. Overall, the conversation combines concerns about malware risks associated with certain content and frustrations over ad overload on the platform.
whoosh

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Cybersecurity experts from Kaspersky uncovered new malware that logs into the YouTube accounts of compromised users and uploads a video to their channel, which distributes RedLine Infostealer.

A victim, ideally a PC gamer, finds a YouTube video on cracks, or cheats, for one of their favorite games: either FIFA, Final Fantasy, Forza Horizon, Lego Star Wars, or Spider-Man. In the video’s description are links that claim to hold those cracks and cheats which, in fact, host multiple malware bundled together.

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These YouTube gaming videos are spreading malware | TechRadar

Self-seeding malware spreading through malicious YouTube videos
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I am using Youtube, it works fine, but there are too many ads
 

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whoosh

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I agree far too much
 

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