{"id":207922,"date":"2025-03-06T05:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/youtube-warns-of-ai-generated-video-of-its-ceo-used-in-phishing-attacks"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:19:33","slug":"youtube-warns-of-ai-generated-video-of-its-ceo-used-in-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/youtube-warns-of-ai-generated-video-of-its-ceo-used-in-phishing-attacks","title":{"rendered":"YouTube warns of AI-generated video of its CEO used in phishing attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youtube-warns-of-ai-generated-video-of-its-ceo-used-in-phishing-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube warns that scammers are using an AI-generated video featuring the company\u2019s CEO in phishing attacks to steal creators\u2019 credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers are sharing it as a private video with targeted users via emails claiming YouTube is changing its monetization policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware that phishers have been sharing private videos to send false videos, including an AI generated video of YouTube\u2019s CEO Neal Mohan announcing changes in monetization,\u201d the online video sharing platform <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/328763988\/phishing-campaign-using-private-video-sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">warned in a pinned post<\/a> on its official community website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube warns that scammers are using an AI-generated video featuring the company\u2019s CEO in phishing attacks to steal creators\u2019 credentials. The attackers are sharing it as a private video with targeted users via emails claiming YouTube is changing its monetization policy. \u201cWe\u2019re aware that phishers have been sharing private videos to send false videos, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207922","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=207922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}