{"id":111344,"date":"2020-08-14T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/youtube-is-under-attack"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:22:20","slug":"youtube-is-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/youtube-is-under-attack","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is under attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youtube-is-under-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Twitter and now YouTube is under attack by hackers promoting Bitcoin scams through live broadcasts using old Elon Musk speeches and a fake broadcast of the launch that SpaceX and NASA made last week. The<strong> hackers appear to have compromised several high-profile YouTube channels<\/strong> and today the account of youtuber Jon Prosser was the object of this attack, his channel is broadcasting with 40 thousand viewers and the attackers have already received around 4 thousand dollars in Bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It may also interest you: What are cryptocurrencies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week there were several reports that people who wanted to see the launch of the<strong> SpaceX clicked on videos that looked official<\/strong> and that they were posted by seemingly legitimate YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and were found with messages from <strong>\u201cBitcoin giveaway\u201d<\/strong> urging them to send Bitcoin for double cash back, a common scam tactic. <strong>Today Jon Prosser reports that something similar is happening on his channel.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Twitter and now YouTube is under attack by hackers promoting Bitcoin scams through live broadcasts using old Elon Musk speeches and a fake broadcast of the launch that SpaceX and NASA made last week. The hackers appear to have compromised several high-profile YouTube channels and today the account of youtuber Jon Prosser was the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}