YouTube terminated over 7 million channels in the third quarter of 2025, attributing the sharp increase to financial scams originating from Southeast Asia. YouTube removed 7,456,811 channels between ...

An email arrived that looked like a routine billing alert for YouTube TV Premium. Near the top, it displayed "BILLING FAILED" in capital letters. Below that, the message claimed the payment was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The YouTube Ghost Network promoted thousands of scam videos. Videos offer game hacks or pirated software; they distribute malware.

Credit: Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nearly a year after his YouTube channel was hacked by crypto scammers, Steve still thinks about ...

The scammer thought he was taking control of a potential victim’s computer to carry out a fake McAfee refund. What he didn’t know was that investigators could quietly cross the connection and access ...

Aged YouTube accounts with a history of posting crypto news and investing tips have been taken over by bad actors to advertise a scam trading bot that steals crypto. Cybersecurity firm SentinelLABS ...

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Ripple warns that bad actors are stealing YouTube accounts and using them to impersonate the firm to shill their scams, including fake “XRP giveaways.” Fraudsters and scammers are taking advantage of ...

XRP investors face rising threats as scammers hijack Youtube accounts to mimic Ripple, pushing fake giveaways just as the token rallies on ETF and adoption momentum. Polymarket's Paid Promos Reach ...

What if the friendly YouTube personality offering tips on how to double your crypto wasn’t just a scammer, but didn’t even exist? That’s exactly what cybersecurity researchers uncovered in one of the ...

Researchers say it is 'one of the largest malware operations seen on YouTube.' A malicious network of videos hosted on YouTube has been discovered by researchers who branded it “one of the largest ...