techpowerup Linus Media Group YouTube Channels Hacked

[Memmento Mori]

Linus Media Group YouTube Channels Hacked

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The popular tech YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips, along with its associated YouTube channel Techquickie, has been hijacked by crypto scammers. Techquickie has been renamed to "Tesla" and is currently...

 

[ENTERPRISE]

Man, I would hate to be in a situation where the platform you use to speak to your audience/make a living from is hacked and defaced. Hope they get it resolved soon.

[Memmento Mori]

Exactly what i thought... just wanted you to inform all.... Better safe then sorry... 

[Monsterkater]

TPU forgot to mention that TechQuickie is affected as well. Let's hope they get their channels back swiftly, tomorrow's WAN show is bound to be interesting.

[Andrew]

It wasn't that long ago that he said he used to use "the hard R" pretty often and that it was normal back (being 2003/2004) then. And now his youtube channels are hard F'ed.

 

I have heard that people can access your session cookies if you open a malicious PDF in your google drive and that this is something that's been happening for a few months. If this is how they got the Linus Group, then there is no excuse for it not being fixed by now.

[Sir Beregond]

Oof, that's not good. I don't watch a lot of LTT, but wish them the best in speedily recovering.

[UltraMega]

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

It wasn't that long ago that he said he used to use "the hard R" pretty often and that it was normal back (being 2003/2004) then. And now his youtube channels are hard F'ed.

 

I have heard that people can access your session cookies if you open a malicious PDF in your google drive and that this is something that's been happening for a few months. If this is how they got the Linus Group, then there is no excuse for it not being fixed by now.

 

He meant "*", not the "n" word. 

 

I still say * all the time, mostly to my cats. 

 

Ok so there's a filter here apparently

Edited March 23, 2023 by UltraMega

[Sir Beregond]

5 minutes ago, UltraMega said:

 

He meant "*", not the "n" word. 

 

I still say * all the time, mostly to my cats. 

 

Ok so there's a filter here apparently

Literally never heard anyone call it a "hard r". They just call it the "r word" these days, so that's weird.

[UltraMega]

8 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Literally never heard anyone call it a "hard r". They just call it the "r word" these days, so that's weird.

Yea, he definitely got the terms mixed up. 

[Andrew]

56 minutes ago, UltraMega said:

 

He meant "*", not the "n" word. 

 

I still say * all the time, mostly to my cats. 

 

Ok so there's a filter here apparently

Yeah, I just wanted to make that stupid joke lol

[Sir Beregond]

47 minutes ago, Andrew said:

Yeah, I just wanted to make that stupid joke lol

You know I didn't even catch it at first, but "hard F'ed", I chuckled re-reading.

Edited March 23, 2023 by Sir Beregond

[ENTERPRISE]

Good to see they got back up, watched their video on the hack...I forgot about the session exploitation, I have to admit. 

 

 

 

[pio]

On 23/03/2023 at 09:52, UltraMega said:

 

He meant "*", not the "n" word. 

 

I still say * all the time, mostly to my cats. 

 

Ok so there's a filter here apparently

Okay, now I'm curious.  You can't say * on EHW?  

 

Apparently not....

Edited March 24, 2023 by pioneerisloud

[EHW Ai]

*

 

can't do it in code, either.

 

but it does make it a bit easier to repeat one's self:

 

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[Alex]

On 24/03/2023 at 09:30, ENTERPRISE said:

Good to see they got back up, watched their video on the hack...I forgot about the session exploitation, I have to admit. 

 

 

I was really surprised that wasn't implemented on YT/Google. They really should look at those partners as what they often are; multi-million dollar partners and put in place a lot more safeguards, features, effort into supporting them. I feel like YouTube/Google still gets a pass for some reason on the incompetent things they do because of how laid-back everything used to be.