Hacker Hijacks Microsoft YouTube Accounts To Broadcast Crypto Ponzi Scam

A hacker has hijacked all of Microsoft's official YouTube accounts and is broadcasting a cryptocurrency Ponzi scam to all of the company's subscribers, ZDNet reported Monday. From the report: The hijacked accounts are still streaming at the time of writing, despite being reported to YouTube's moderators for more than an hour. The hacker is currently live-streaming an old Bill Gates talk on startups that the former Microsoft CEO gave to an audience at Village Global in June 2019. Hackers are live-streaming an altered version of the presentation, but also asking for viewers to participate in a classic "crypto giveway" -- where victims are tricked to send a small sum of cryptocurrency to double their earnings but never get any funds in return.

Google needs higher customer service standards

[joeshutt]

This just highlights one of the most annoying things about Google. It takes forever for them to take action even for high profile cases because you can never talk to a human. I bet they are just becoming aware of this now only because it's being publicized. Meanwhile Google's automation is deciding if it cares.

Security failures on all sides

[xack]

Microsoft and Google should be very embarressed, but they will use their PR magic as usual. These are the people responsoible for your "security updates".

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[The New Guy 2.0]

Microsoft must be working from home today, while other companies aren't getting things done. Better than the all COVID-19 topic stream we had this weekend.

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[notdecnet]

> What kind of kickback is Slashdot getting from MS to warrant this shameless publicity?

If you enable adverts then you'll see what kind of kickback. These are known as Microsoft Slashvertisments in other quarters.

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[nukenerd]

What kind of kickback is Slashdot getting from MS to warrant this shameless publicity?

They don't look like good publicity to me. They make Microsoft look like shit.

Microsoft's official YouTube accounts hijacked

[notdecnet]

Any news as to how these Youtube accounts were hijacked and is there a link to this altered version old Bill Gates talk?

NOT OFFICIAL MS CHANNELS TOO

[gl4ss]

Most of them are not official ms channels. he renames them to Microsoft channels and streams his bitcoin scam address on there.

there was a channel about making wheels. carriage wheels. old wooden wheels. one day it got renamed to microsoft blabla channel with a stream that claims that bill gates is giving free bitcoin if you send bitcoin to an address.

also youtube doesn't respond to marking the streams as spam/fraud. it's actually quite a big of a problem and youtube isn't doing shit.

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Triple Redundant

[humankind]

Hacker Hijacks Microsoft YouTube Accounts To Broadcast Crypto Ponzi Scam

"Crypto Ponzi scam" is triple redundant.

I reported this a week ago.

[Arzaboa]

I reported the Bill Gates one to YouTube a week ago. I also reported a few COVID-19 fake news streams. Not one of them has been taken down.

When a company that makes BILLIONS of dollars can't pay any attention to this stuff they have no room to complain when people come threatening regulation. They could spend 10 million a day on this and still make a huge sum of money.

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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. - Andrei Codrescu

So what's new(s)?

[sylvandb]

I gave up reporting these kind of scams to youtube. There are continuous such streams and it seems to get worse on weekends. The only things that ever change are the hook/content to get people in, the crypto involved, and the account. But using a microsoft account isn't new. Either stolen or faked microsoft accounts have been streaming for at least a week. I haven't paid much attention, like I said, I gave up reporting them because nothing every happens.