Cyber Crime Youtube: According to a cyber security, since November 2022, there has been a jump of 200-300 percent in the growth of these videos. Most of the videos tell how to download crack versions of software like Adobe Photoshop and AutoCAD.
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YouTube Cyber Crime: Popular Video Streaming Platform Youtube But a big danger is looming for the users. Now cybercriminals are also cheating people through YouTube videos. Not only less educated users get trapped in their trap, but educated people also get harmed by falling in their trap. scammers artificial intelligence (AI) are making people their victims. Next we will see how hackers trap people, and what are the ways to avoid them.
It has been revealed in media reports that these cybercriminals resort to artificially generated videos to commit fraud. Malware is downloaded by misleading people through these videos on video sharing platforms like YouTube.
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This is how they trap prey
According to the report of an IT security intelligence firm, such videos related to malware are increasing by 200 to 300 percent month-on-month. Personal information of users is stolen by downloading malware like Vidar, RedLine and Raccoon from these videos.
It is often seen that users watch videos on YouTube to know how to download crack versions of some paid software. Cybercriminals take advantage of this, and trap people in their trap. Users watch such videos in the greed of downloading popular paid software like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Autodesk 3ds Max and AutoCAD for free.
scam from tutorial video
The step by step process of downloading the software is explained in the tutorial video. To win the trust of users, AI generated videos are used from platforms like Synthesia and D-ID. The description of the video contains a link to a fake website, which is used to inject malware into users’ systems. In this way the details of the users are stolen.
Follow these methods to avoid
Users need to be careful to avoid online cyber fraud. If you want to avoid any such fraud then enable multi-factor authentication. At the same time, any unknown call, message, link should not be paid attention to. Apart from this, clicking on the link of unknown email address or using pirated software should be avoided.
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