him and swatted him cops showed up at the millisen's residence found there was no reason for the swat team to be called and were informed by a relative of millicents that someone called their house and claimed millicent had stolen almost NUMBER_TOKEN grand the department of justice was able to utilize resources from the dark market and digital currency crimes task force to bring millicent to justice back in may of this year and brian now faces a sentencing of two years for his own involvement this story hits kinda close to home because i just gave a talk at a youtuber event about how to protect your youtube account from getting hijacked google's threat analysis group aka tag has been researching an ongoing campaign first spotted back in NUMBER_TOKEN that targets youtube creators in phishing attacks meant to steal their passwords the campaigns often promised some kind of sponsorship or partnership with a brand and they asked the creator to download a file which is actually malware the criminals behind these attacks seem to stem from job ads on russian forums seeking hackers for hire who could use social engineering tactics and phishing emails to push malware to content creators the job descriptions included collecting the youtube account contact email registering a gmail account sending out social engineering and phishing attacks and tricking victims into downloading the malware the hired hackers could earn anywhere between NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN percent of the revenue from those hijacked youtube channels multiple malware variants are being used in these attacks in order to steal the target's credentials and their browser cookies which can allow the attacker to hijack the target's youtube account in a past the cookie attack the malware could avoid sandboxing by using enlarged files encrypted archives and download ipcloaking according to a tag security engineer the attacker can also use the stolen browser cookies to pose as the victim already authenticated in a browser which means they would not need to go through the whole login process and they could circumvent a NUMBER_TOKENfa login code now many of the youtube accounts were used to conduct live streaming cryptocurrency scams and sold for up to four thousand dollars via the dark web per account google's cyber security team has cut down on phishing emails and blocked many attacks but the attackers are shifting away from the gmail accounts they originally used URL_TOKEN accounts so we can tell that it is still ongoing google is still investigating and reported these attacks to the fbi since may google has restored about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN youtube influencer accounts that were targeted in these campaigns but creators should still use two-factor authentication with hardware tokens being the best option even though codes could be bypassed in this specific attack scenario and remember to never download files sent from any unknown accounts i love it when y'all send me these adorable pictures of your pets these fur babies are so cute and these are a few from a hush puppy patreon alliance members you can always support this content and you can keep it ad free for as little as two dollars per month and you get a slew of perks at the same time including that holiday card each and every single alliance member gets over NUMBER_TOKEN perks as soon as you sign up at URL_TOKEN threatwire so keep that in mind and with that on to the third news story so reville seems to leave and come back over and over again it's kind of like watching a tennis match between real ransomware gangs and the government agencies well according to reports law enforcement groups from several different countries including
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN when y'all send me these adorable pictures of your pets these fur babies are so cute and these are a few from a hush puppy patreon alliance members you can always support this content and you can keep it ad free for as little as two dollars per month and you get a slew of perks at the same time including that holiday card each and every single alliance member gets over NUMBER_TOKEN perks as soon as you sign up at URL_TOKEN threatwire so keep that in mind and with that on to the third news END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN