Thousands of webservers have compromised users by hosting fake YouTube pages, eSoft Threat Prevention Team told. The fake YouTube attempts users to to play the video on these fake pages prompts the user to install a ‘media codec’ which then infects the machine with malware.
Each page claims to have a “Hot Video” associated with anything from the Gulf Oil Spill to the NBA Playoffs. Google search results show 135,000 of these infected pages at the time of writing.
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