CRYPTOCURRENCY HACKERS USING YOUTUBE ADVERTISEMENTS TO TARGET USE

Mostly people don’t hate Google advertisements whether its in other website or in YouTube instead of popup or malicious ads. But what happened if Google ads in YouTube will advertise phishing URL or phishing website? Shocking huh…..!!!
Yeah… that’s true. The issue is believed to have first come to light last week when users of the Google owned video website reported that watching ads on YouTube was triggering their anti-virus software.

This advertisement had contained mining code called “CoinHive” that were acting as malware attack by secretly using up to 80 per cent of visitors’ computers CPU to mine cryptocurrencies for Unknown hackers. In simple words, these idiot hackers were using your computers for mining.

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