Youtube is the new victim of Cryptojacking

Cryptokacking is a new malware infecting the devices using YouTube to gain the access of a target's CPU to collect Cryptocurrencies.

By Sandeep
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Internet has always been used by some unwanted cyber scams artist for making cyber thefts and other crimes. Even the tech giant Google has been targeted many times by unwanted scams and malwares. Google's internet video platform YouTube is the latest victim of one such cyber crime called Cryptojacking.

 
Youtube is the new victim of Cryptojacking

Cryptokacking is claimed to be a new malware infecting the devices using YouTube to gain the access of a target's CPU to collect Cryptocurrencies. As per some reports some bad actors are inserting a piece of JavaScript into websites and advertisements on the YouTube network for cryptocurrency information. With Google's YouTube being affected by the scam this is a situation one needs to be extra cautious while surfing the internet.

 
Youtube is the new victim of Cryptojacking

The reports further suggest that users on social media began complaining that YouTube ads were stirring their antivirus software up. A script from a service called CoinHive was being specifically recognized by the antivirus software. The main agenda of the attackers behind this attack was to allow sites to make some extra income using a visitor's CPU processing power for mining Monero which is a type of cryptocurrency. The YouTube's ads that were running the script reportedly used 80 percent of a users CPU and neither the user nor YouTube were not informed what was happening. This caused a user's computer to crash.

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As per Trend Micro's research 10 percent of cases used a custom script to mine Monero however it didn't give CoinHive its usual 30 percent cuts of the profit.
Further reports from Gizmodo suggest that a source with a direct Knowledge of YouTube is handling the situation and the two-hour measurement was just being applied to watch individual ad run by the hackers. A clean ad submitted using a clean account set up by the hijacker is being approved by YouTube.

Youtube is the new victim of Cryptojacking

The attackers use various cloaking methods to fool he YouTube's system and swap a non infected app with the one that includes the malicious script, this happens when the ad goes live. The ad is taken down a couple of hours later and user who submitted the ad gets his account deleted. With this ongoing and evolving problem YoTube and Google,s ad network should be made more secure.

We request our users to stay extra cautious while accessing the internet and playing videos on YouTube and also not to click any suspicious or malicious video link on YouTube.

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