ALERT: Nearly 3 Million Malicious Fake YouTube Pages Indexed on Google

According to in-the-cloud security leader Zscaler, Google is currently indexing nearly 3 million malicious fake YouTube pages leading to fake anti-virus (AV) downloads. The fake YouTube pages appear when users do a Google search for the term “Hot Video”. Clicking on the links lead to something that looks like a YouTube video page before an invisible Flash layer directs viewers to a fake AV page.

According to Julien Sobrier at Zscaler, “The fake YouTube video page is covered by an invisible layer and the Flash object automatically redirects the user to a fake AV page.

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