Dangerous Trends: YouTube Stream-Jacking Attacks Reach Alarming Levels

A recent trend among major streaming platforms has been to increase their threat of stream-jacking attacks. Cybercriminals aim to compromise high-profile accounts, especially those with large follower counts, so that their deceptive messages may reach a large audience through compromised accounts. 

Bitdefender Labs researchers have been actively monitoring steam-jacking attacks that have been targeting high-profile YouTube accounts in October of 2023 to conduct various crypto-doubling scams.

In a new report published by Bitdefender, a sudden rise in stream-jacking attacks has been revealed targeting high-profile and popular streaming services such as YouTube, where malicious links or lures are distributed to the user. 

While most of these attacks result in a complete account takeover, there are some instances where the attackers may still manage the account. On average, YouTube creators make about 55% of their revenue from their channels. For every $100 that an advertiser pays to Google, they are paid USD 55. 

Accordingly, YouTube creators earn an average of $0.18 per view, which equates to $ 18 per 1,000 views. This means that the top ten YouTubers averaged $300,000,000 in revenue for the year 2021, representing an increase of 40% from this year. 

As creators are being paid so much, they’re making more videos. As wi

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