YouTube users looking for videos for current pre-teen favourites Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers got a nasty surprise.The Google-owned video sharing site had been hit by some 5,000 videos from Japanese bulletin board 4Chan.
According to a BBC report, one 4Chan member said that the attack had been planned because of YouTube's stance on music. Flonty, said "I did it because YouTube keeps deleting music. It was part of a 4Chan raid."
However, according to Panda Security, there was a financial advantage too. The company said there were 4,900 offending videos on YouTube each containing links to a web pages designed to download malware. The comments suggest that that the users are being taken to a legal web page, albeit with pornographic content. In fact, when users click the link they're taken to a page that spoofs the original and which is really designed to download malware.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/165475/youtube_hit_by_porn_storm.html?tk=nl_dnx_t_crawl
According to a BBC report, one 4Chan member said that the attack had been planned because of YouTube's stance on music. Flonty, said "I did it because YouTube keeps deleting music. It was part of a 4Chan raid."
However, according to Panda Security, there was a financial advantage too. The company said there were 4,900 offending videos on YouTube each containing links to a web pages designed to download malware. The comments suggest that that the users are being taken to a legal web page, albeit with pornographic content. In fact, when users click the link they're taken to a page that spoofs the original and which is really designed to download malware.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/165475/youtube_hit_by_porn_storm.html?tk=nl_dnx_t_crawl
