Last week, the biggest tech-focused YouTube from the channels Linus Tech Tips has been hacked. So how did this happen?
Leading among YouTube’s largest channels in the technology category Linus Tech Tips, Last week, a very surprising topic came up. To be the main channel on March 23 Linus Tech TipsAll sub-channels connected to , were accessed by hackers and through these channels Elon Musk-based crypto scam. This was very surprising because Linus Tech Tips It certainly wasn’t a small home-run YouTube channel. There is a large company with many employees behind this channel, it is quite surprising that such a thing happens to this company, which is managed by people with high computer / internet knowledge. So how did this hack happen? LTT’s channel codes have been compromised? Broken two step verification system? The answer to these is no. How then could the channel be accessed remotely? Hackers targeting the Linus Tech Tips channel include “malwareThey have prepared a special PDF file that includes ”. This PDF file is for an LTT employee. by showing it as an information file within the scope of the advertisement project. sentwhen he downloads the working PDF to his PC and opens it,All browser information captured in seconds. This PDF is available in installed browsers. “session tokens / Session ID” acquires information, in this way, the browser used as the basis for hackers “exact copy” he gives.
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Browsers for automatic login processes and to keep you logged in between pages retains input datahackers steal this data copying your browser’s data to their browser. In this way, LTT’s YouTube channel is accessed without the need for any password, and with subsequent uploads and live broadcasts. fraudulent activities begin. Very strangely, YouTube, which does not require a password to change the channel name, intervenes quickly because the LTT is large, but still the channels become unusable for a day. After this situation, of course, the biggest criticism is that the CEO has changed in the past weeks. going to youtube. The giant video platform now needs to transition to a new security system that will better protect especially the big channels against such situations. It is not the first time that a major channel has been hacked on the platform, however, big steps for both before and after have not been made. not thrown.
∗The process is explained by LTT owner “Linus Sebastian” in the video above.
An event that happened on the same basis almost exactly happened to Pintipanda, one of the big game publishers based in Turkey, in the past period. Tuna Akşen, the owner of the channel, explained how this very annoying incident happened. “HOW DID I COVER THE 1.13 MILLION CHANNEL? (and how I got it back)” in the video below had told. At the last stage, not only YouTubers, but everyone should be very wary of PDFs coming via email, especially compressed (Zip/RAR) files to their system or open them.