Today the social media savvy persons frequently visits to VPNs, music players, photo editing, and online gaming were among the few products that the influencers were requested to advertise.
Hackers posing as YouTube influencers have been luring unsuspecting victims into phoney paid collaborations in order to take over their accounts. Over the last six months, Google’s Threat Analysis Group has stopped 1.6 million phishing emails soliciting money in exchange for product promotion and restored over 4,000 accounts, according to Google.
According to Google, the operations were carried out by Russian speakers who were hired via forums and promised up to 70% of the money from the hijacked channels. Around 15,000 actor accounts have been identified by Google, the majority of which were generated particularly for this effort, according to the company.
“The attackers registered various domains associated with forged companies and built multiple websites for malware delivery. To date, we’ve identified at least 1,011 domains created solely for this purpose,” said Ashley Sen, a security researcher at Google.
Cookie theft is a session hijacking technique that allows attackers to get access to user accounts by utilising session cookies saved in the browser. The attackers were able to seize control of the influencers’ accounts and sell or utilise them for bitcoin frauds.
