135 000 Fake YouTube Pages Delivering Malware
The eSoft Threat Prevention Team has uncovered thousands compromised web servers hosting fake YouTube pages. Attempting to play the video on these fake pages prompts the user to install a ‘media codec’ which then infects the machine with malware.
The fake YouTube pages are well crafted and look almost identical to the real site. By using websites like YouTube, cyber criminals are taking advantage of a users’ inherent trust in the site and are able to infect more machines.
Each page claims to have a “Hot Video” associated with anything from the Gulf Oil Spill to the NBA Playoffs. Google search results show 135,000 of these infected pages at the time of writing.
