{"id":146592,"date":"2022-09-17T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-malware-targeting-gamers-via-youtube"},"modified":"2022-09-17T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T02:23:50","slug":"researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-malware-targeting-gamers-via-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-malware-targeting-gamers-via-youtube","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Warn of Self-Spreading Malware Targeting Gamers via YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-malware-targeting-gamers-via-youtube.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gamers looking for cheats on YouTube are being targeted with links to rogue password-protected archive files designed to install crypto miners and information-stealing malware such as RedLine Stealer on compromised machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe videos advertise cheats and cracks and provide instructions on hacking popular games and software,\u201d Kaspersky security researcher Oleg Kupreev <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/self-spreading-stealer-attacks-gamers-via-youtube\/107407\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a new report published today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamers looking for cheats on YouTube are being targeted with links to rogue password-protected archive files designed to install crypto miners and information-stealing malware such as RedLine Stealer on compromised machines. \u201cThe videos advertise cheats and cracks and provide instructions on hacking popular games and software,\u201d Kaspersky security researcher Oleg Kupreev said in a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146592","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}