YouTube can be a great place. Whether you want to have a laugh at the famous
keyboard cat, learn
to cut a mango, or watch step by step
how to download your AVG Internet Security software, you can view it all there!
However, with the availability of
so many videos and the incredible volumes of traffic the site receives, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that
cybercriminals are looking to reap some benefit.
YouTube visitors therefore must be wary of links that come with videos; and should be especially wary of videos that turn out to be graphics directing them to specific links on the page.
The example included below “only” had a survey scam on it, but an earlier version (which was taken down shortly after it was first detected by
AVG LinkScanner®) led to a site loaded with the powerful
Blackhole Exploit Kit.
