http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4021 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Beware of YouTube links in Emails en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:40:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4021#post-43278 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:20:33 +0000 my_name_is_brad 43278@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Nice article.</p> <p>this is similar to phishing techniques that have been used for some time. In the past it was a case of people sending legit looking emails supposed to be from a banking institution or other trusted source. These provide a link to the "site". The link is actually to a semi complete replica of where the user thinks they are going. Then info is gathered.</p> <p>I would be interested to see what these new attacks are actually doing. It seems like a lot of trouble just to trash a few computers.</p> <p>Like I said in the clickjacking thread, and mentioned in the article. ALWAYS check links before visiting. These youtube spoofs will NOT contain a legit youtube address.</p> <p>One quick point though, these are not hackers for the most part. They are using a program to do something they likely have no clue how to do on their own. It would be like calling someone who made a freewebs site a web designer, or calling someone a graphic artist because they decorated their own MySpace. Sorry, that is just a pet peeve of mine. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4021#post-43277 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:17:14 +0000 LeKanaw 43277@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Bonjour MZ :*)</strong><br /> Big Thanks for the info!!</p> <p>This really is a Cat &#38; Mouse game!!<br /> So much energy wasted!!! *sigh*</p> <p>Peace<br /> <strong>PS:</strong> Did you see my post about ClickJacking? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4021#post-43275 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:50:21 +0000 copmom 43275@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Uh Oh.. I had one link the other day.. saying I needed to upgrade something!<br /> Thanks for the warning maizey! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4021#post-43260 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:36:57 +0000 maizeydaze 43260@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The Star Tribune published an article on 10/08/08 stating that links to YouTube videos that you receive in an <strong>email</strong><strong> could take you to a malicious web site when the link is clicked. Read the following article for details: <a href="http://www.artsandlabs.com/news/STARTRIBUNE_Criminals_building_fake_YouTube_pages_to_spread_viruses.aspx">STAR-TRIBUNE: Criminals building fake YouTube pages to spread viruses</a></p> <blockquote><p>A program circulating online helps hackers build those fake pages. Users who follow an e-mail pointing them to one of the pages would see an error message that claims the video they want won't play without installing new software first. That error message includes a link the hacker has provided to a malicious program, which delivers a virus.</blockquote> </strong> </p>