[Stanley]

3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation

A malicious network of YouTube accounts has been observed publishing and promoting videos that lead to malware downloads, essentially abusing the popularity and trust associated with the video hosting platform for propagating malicious payloads.
Active since 2021, the network has published more than 3,000 malicious videos to date, with the volume of such videos tripling since the start of the

https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/3000-y...lware.html

[Vectura]

YouTube’s been a malware delivery vector for years, but the scale of this ghost network is wild. People still trust video links more than random files, which makes campaigns like this way too effective.

[JoshAllen]

This has been happening so long and it seems like YT just doesn't care at all.

I have been getting an obviously scam video ad on YouTube for months.

[sn1perb0nd]

For a company that has been around longer then the rest of the other social media companies, its embarassing how poorly they react and handle these type of attacks on the platform. They're so slow to react to threats, that by the time they address the situation the attacker has already got the results they were going for.

[JoshAllen]

For a company that has been around longer then the rest of the other social media companies, its embarassing how poorly they react and handle these type of attacks on the platform. They're so slow to react to threats, that by the time they address the situation the attacker has already got the results they were going for.

Don’t think they care much since it makes them money.

[Charlie Sheen]

Who still falls for YouTube scams.. For the longest time it's been such a dead way to spread.