YouTube hit by porn storm

**Glaswegian** · 05-22-2009, 01:48 PM

YouTube users looking for videos for current pre-teen favourites Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers got a nasty surprise.The Google-owned video sharing site had been hit by some 5,000 videos from Japanese bulletin board 4Chan.

According to a BBC report, one 4Chan member said that the attack had been planned because of YouTube's stance on music. Flonty, said "I did it because YouTube keeps deleting music. It was part of a 4Chan raid."

However, according to Panda Security, there was a financial advantage too. The company said there were 4,900 offending videos on YouTube each containing links to a web pages designed to download malware. The comments suggest that that the users are being taken to a legal web page, albeit with pornographic content. In fact, when users click the link they're taken to a page that spoofs the original and which is really designed to download malware.

This malware, when run on a computer, pretends to scan the system, supposedly detecting dozens of (non-existent) viruses and offers users the chance to buy the paid version of the anti-virus to clean their computers.

"The technique of using malicious comments on YouTube is not new in itself. What is alarming however, is the quantity of links we have detected pointing to the same web page. This suggests that cyber-criminals are using automated tools to publish these comments", explains Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs.

http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...&NewsID=116271

TJ Belfiore · 05-22-2009, 10:35 PM

Anonymous delivers!

icanhasclearCPU · 05-30-2009, 07:25 AM

I am not fond of Anonymous myself, as I am having problems with one of them, so I steer clear of sites like 4chan

05-22-2009, 01:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Glaswegian Moderator/ Rangemaster TSF Academy; Analyst, Security Team; Oor Wullie; TSF Surgeon and Resident Comic Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Glasgow Posts: 25,449 OS: Win XP Pro SP3 / Win 7 Pro My System Blog Entries: 10	YouTube hit by porn storm YouTube users looking for videos for current pre-teen favourites Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers got a nasty surprise.The Google-owned video sharing site had been hit by some 5,000 videos from Japanese bulletin board 4Chan. According to a BBC report, one 4Chan member said that the attack had been planned because of YouTube's stance on music. Flonty, said "I did it because YouTube keeps deleting music. It was part of a 4Chan raid." However, according to Panda Security, there was a financial advantage too. The company said there were 4,900 offending videos on YouTube each containing links to a web pages designed to download malware. The comments suggest that that the users are being taken to a legal web page, albeit with pornographic content. In fact, when users click the link they're taken to a page that spoofs the original and which is really designed to download malware. This malware, when run on a computer, pretends to scan the system, supposedly detecting dozens of (non-existent) viruses and offers users the chance to buy the paid version of the anti-virus to clean their computers. "The technique of using malicious comments on YouTube is not new in itself. What is alarming however, is the quantity of links we have detected pointing to the same web page. This suggests that cyber-criminals are using automated tools to publish these comments", explains Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...&NewsID=116271 __________________ Iain - Defender of the Haggis and all things Scottish. I don't help by PM - post in the Forums. PC Safety & Security::PC running a bit slow?::Donate::Photographers Corner

05-22-2009, 10:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
TJ Belfiore title here Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 530 Posts: 3,515 OS: 7 x64, XP x32	Re: YouTube hit by porn storm Anonymous delivers! __________________

05-30-2009, 07:25 AM	#3 (permalink)
icanhasclearCPU Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Gettysburg, PA Posts: 4 OS: Windows Vista 64 bit edition My System	Re: YouTube hit by porn storm I am not fond of Anonymous myself, as I am having problems with one of them, so I steer clear of sites like 4chan __________________ I am personally tired of my computer illiterate family ><