Warning: YouTube Could Be Used To Hack Your Computer

Posted on 12. Jun, 2007 by Salman in bugs found, youtube bugs

The most viewed online video website YouTube could be used to gain unauthorized control to your computer. The entire exploitation is based on a file named YouTube04567.exe that must be downloaded and executed by a user with administrator privileges. After the malicious file is entirely installed on a computer, it opens a YouTube video called [...]