Vladimir Zykov, director of the Association of Professional Users of Social Networks and Messengers (APPSIM), said that foreign IT giants are bad at fighting cybercrime.
“Foreign companies are very vulnerable to cybercrime. You may remember Android, where infected applications are often found. “This means that the company is not fighting virus activities well.”
According to him, YouTube does not protect its products well either.
“On YouTube, all kinds of links to download hacks for games or mods, which often contain various viruses, are placed under the videos. YouTube doesn’t care if anything illegal or dangerous is advertised on its video service,” Zykov said.
Unfortunately, IT giants protect their users very poorly against the dangers they may encounter in their products.
As a reminder, cybercriminals are increasingly spreading malware via YouTube links. For example, according to the data “Kaspersky Lab”They upload video explanations of cheats (a code that can be entered to change the way a program works), and cracks (a copy of a computer program with manufacturer-installed copy protection removed) or instructions. how to enter a particular game or software into existing channels without the knowledge of their owners and how to embed malware directly in these videos and add a link to a malicious RAR archive to their description. If you download it, it will immediately start self-extracting.