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Sead Fadilpašić

Watch out - criminals are turning to YouTube videos to trick victims into downloading malware

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Hackers are once again using YouTube to lure people into downloading infostealers and other malware, experts have warned. 

This time around, researchers from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs found a new campaign looking to distribute the Lumma stealer. As per the report, researcher Cara Lin discovered multiple YouTube videos demonstrating how to install cracked commercial software, such as Vegas Pro. The videos are fake, and in their description is a shortened url (usually via TinyURL and Cuttly) claiming to offer the software from the video, for free.

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