According to a new report by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, scammers are hijacking YouTube accounts to impersonate professional CS2 players, including Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev, Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač and Danil "donk" Kryshkovets, and launching fake livestreams. Earlier this year, Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky discovered that suspected Russian-speaking hackers are using malicious versions of popular pirated games to install cryptomining software known as XMRig on their victims' devices. Malicious versions of games such as BeamNG.drive, Garry’s Mod, Dyson Sphere Program, Universe Sandbox and Plutocracy were hosted on torrent sites, which are often used for the illegal sharing of copyrighted content like movies, music, software and games. Cybercriminals are exploiting major e-sports tournaments to target players of the popular video game Counter-Strike 2 (CS2), researchers have found. Scammers gain control of YouTube channels with existing subscriber bases, rebrand them to mimic well-known players, and broadcast fake livestreams.
This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:10:07 +0000