Hackers Lure PC Victims With Fake YouTube Videos

This was posted by one of my pownce pals.

For those who are fond of watching YouTube videos, please beware.

Here’s an excerpt of the article.

A hacker group known as “Storm Botnet” over the weekend began flooding the Internet with emails, inviting Web users to watch a salacious video starring them on YouTube, the video-sharing site owned by Google Inc. (GOOG). One such email is headlined “OMG, what are you thinking,” and reads: “this i [sic] not good. If this video gets to her husband your both dead. see for yourself…” It then provides a link to a purported video.

However, links in the emails actually point to attacker-operated sites that try to download several malicious programs onto vulnerable personal computers, according to Roger Thompson, chief technical officer at Exploit Prevention Labs, a New Kingstown, Pa., security company.

“Everybody thinks a YouTube video is perfectly safe, and in reality it is,” Thompson said. “You’re not actually getting to YouTube.”

Once infected, victim PCs become spam machines, “zombies” that Storm Botnet can use to attack others on the Internet with floods of traffic, and Web servers that further distribute the group’s malicious programs to other PCs. The attackers also plant a rootkit in victim PCs that tries to hide the malicious programs so antivirus software can’t remove them.

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