YouTube Channels Are Being Hacked…

[@thelawnm0wer330]

Here before his channel gets hacked

[@joanfinocchiaro6313]

Yeah like lol

[@Deiv.]

Lmao

[@twotailedfox3349]

same lmfao

[@happyyen9]

lol

[@magnetiterose9614]

Yes

[@-Zegop-]

For anyone wondering, the video’s original title was “Why My KZbin Channel Won’t Be Hacked…” Maybe that was too much tempting fate for Muta to bear.

[@MHTJ0001]

I saw that on my notifications and said to myself, "Mutahar just painted a target on his back".

[@nv7583]

I notice that if I post a video link to discord the thumbnail and title sometimes changes. Maybe the AB testing feature from KZbin with bugs. But yes, either he changed it because hackers will just challenge him

[@slimeplort]

This is like when Sony came out and said their PS3 is "unhackable". There is no such thing as unhackable, the only difference is in how much effort it takes to hack. Don't give someone a reason to make that effort.

[@tortron]

Tomorrow. MY KZbin WAS HACKED

[@MagickP00dle]

It'll be at least 48 hours. That seems to be the average turnaround after a hack.

[@drago6568]

Scary thing is that the video will be titled crypto coins news

[@ProtoType4588]

then after youtube got hacked and every channel is now just cat and dog videos just as the internet was intended to be

[@𰻝]

He won't get hacked. If my channel hasn't been hacked then he won't get hacked.

[@rogeliocano9536]

@@𰻝You only have 122 subscribers you are not a target for hackers.

[@synnical77]

This is ludicrous on KZbin's part. It should be painfully obvious for KZbin to determine that a channel has been hacked and had their content changed to scam advertisements. This shouldn't even require the channel owner to complain. This should easily be caught automatically by KZbin algorithms.

[@TheeRebel]

They are ran by greedy fools 🤷🏾‍♂️ prove me wrong

[@TheTruthDragonNJ09]

KZbin's backend went to shit ever since the Google+ integration broke things they couldn't fix. This is why fake accounts run rampant.

[@dragonmares59110]

KZbin does not care. Protection against hacking is not making money. KZbin does not give a crap if if does not make it money

[@bobafett4265]

Considering this is KZbin let alone Google we're talking about, they've had just as many failures as successes with their Bots and Algorithms detecting problems on their site. Need I remind of the Moist Critical incident on that Staged Road Rage Incident video that was made for laughs which Charlie seen made a video reacting to it and KZbin falsely flagged him over it thinking it was a "Real" Road Rage Incident despite everything telling someone with a pulse it's fake.

[@davidlionheart2438]

This KZbin...who's algorithm keeps pausing my comments for 24 hours for "bullying" characters in Reddit stories on Reddit reader channels.

[@sasaki999pro]

_There is NO WAY this isn't mutahar intentionally issuing a thinly veiled challenge._

[@ianatkinson5509]

Ikr I thought the same thing

[@TrainerGoldAlt]

he literally issued a bounty for hacking his pc that shit isnt even thinly veiled

[@Anonemousehouse]

He literally owns a web security company

[@ianzerotwo]

@@TrainerGoldAltI thought this was the case but seeing their comments made me question myself. Thanks for helping my sanity 😅

[@noir66146]

definately intentional. he even winked @ 0:00 its fast, but you can see it, maybe

[@jushara8979]

KZbin really needs to allow people to create "Killswitch" OTPs. so that in an emergency you can enter the code in on a page and have the page immediately privated and locked. alerting google in the process. it would probably cut down on a LOT of these issues. because half of the reason people's accounts end up getting terminated for this is because of how slow youtube is to respond to a channel that has been hijacked, giving it plenty of time to gather reports for being a scam page. Because if you gather so many reports it probably becomes very difficult for google to just "Fix it" because of the automated system...You basically have to keep harassing them until they escalate it to someone who can help, which is tough when you are not just locked out of the account but the account it self has been terminated. It would be really nice if there was a "big red button" you could hit in an emergency to shut the channel down before it gets so bad that automated systems get involved.

[@TikkiNikki]

The whole point of MFA/OTP is to be inconvenient

[@XDBuddha]

tomorrow he'll have an AI live stream of elon selling some meme token lol

[@ruinfox4108]

he changed the title lol. he knows he messed up

[@RetroHabit82]

Mutacoin

[@cryptoalchemist369]

actually, it's ai elon telling people to send him their doge coin, and he'll send them double back. i know, because they have been doing it for 3 years. although now they do brad garlinghouse instead, and claiming xrp instead of doge

[@wither6]

@@ruinfox4108what was the title before?

[@ruinfox4108]

@@wither6 he keeps deleting any comments mentioning the old title, he was basically begging hackers to hack his youtube channel.

[@techoeastveld]

He immediately changed the title damn (Original: why my youtube channel wont get hacked) (New: KZbin Channels are being hacked)

[@FilipinoWeeb]

Oh bro I just noticed it jow lol

[@kevo300]

Someordinarybackpedal

[@Theachivmentsearcher]

He does that I found out a couple months ago that he changes the title name

[@batman8ish]

So what even I don’t want him to get hacked smart move to be done within the hour

[@Dustyscalps]

It's A/B testing for optimal title perf- naaaah HACKED

[@thepurpleemu]

This will either age like a fine wine from Tuscany, or milk that has been left out in the hot sun lmao

[@joanfinocchiaro6313]

😅 yeah

[@patrickwumbo8271]

Milk... also from Tuscany

[@TheNightquaker]

It'll age like milk, guaranteed.

[@PracticallyInvincible]

It'll age better than this dumbass comment 👍 Good luck, buddy.

[@bcoon2000]

For 5 years

[@ehtrude]

Plot twist: This video is AI, the channel was already hacked.

[@JunkieRemix]

This is basically like taking pictures of your house and posting them saying "no one can break into my house!"

[@darthnutsack6717]

What is it about humans that when you tell them not to do something it makes them want to do it even more lol

[@TessaBainCNM]

No, it's not. An account is in no way the same as a physical house and even if it were, he's not talking about someone being able to brute force things meaning he would still be right even if that happened.

[@LaurentiusTriarius]

Yes, tbh I think that's the point he's taunting us . . .

[@Gigachad762.39]

I could post $1000 saying “I found this on the road” & 30 people will be crying saying it’s theirs “🤬 I’ll come for you or take your family out”. People are unhinged these days

[@emily1]

⁠@@TessaBainCNM No. 🤓

[@mth0d]

Careful Mutahar.. As a professional security engineer, the one thing i’ve learned is that there is ALWAYS someone better than you, there are many levels to this game. Edit: VMs does not solve everything, OS compartmentalisation is good. But you do absolutely nothing to protect your L2-L4 coms, only micro segmentation and a ngfw can do that. A Real sandboxing environment is where traffic is decrypted and executed inline to the device. And will in turn spoof tcp retries to stop the session if anything malicious is detected. This together with a real dlp solution, checking that your outbound traffic does not contain any private tokens or keys could do a lot more to actually protect you.

[@YourLocalNo0ne]

Someone's boutta say "bet" without even watching this and spend years making a way into his channel

[@ruinfox4108]

he changed the title lol. he knows he messed up

[@balsalmalberto8086]

Jia Tan already is in another repo waiting for muta.

[@L8_HOURS]

@@ruinfox4108what was the original title lol?

[@nascarsimracing1]

@L8_HOURS It was "why my youtube channel won't get hacked"

[@nascarsimracing1]

Someone else commented it. "Why my youtube channel won't get hacked" ​@L8_HOURS

[@BakedUpRose]

This happened to my little brother, he had a Roblox channel with 100k subs they sent him an email talking about $300/ a second to play a game. I told him don’t click or download shit until I get back home from work. I get back home from work and now he’s panicking and crying because his channel got hacked and he downloaded the hack on every computer in the house because he thought the download wasn’t work. I was so pissed because him and my mom was hiding the channel from me and neither of them knew shit about keeping themselves protected on the internet until that happened. He was making 1k a month at 15 and ruined it in seconds trying to be greedy

[@cryptoalchemist369]

lmfao what a clown

[@JJFX-]

Plot twist: You find out your brother has been making 3X that with crypto.

[@mrthrowaway5414]

15?! FIFTEEN?!

[@zelowatch30]

A little kid with 100k subs? Humanity is doomed.

[@cryptoalchemist369]

@zelowatch30 especially because there's contract creators like me out there, focusing on breakthrough and suppressed sciences and technology, and I have been stuck at 9400 subs for 3 years! mind you, I've been receiving these fake 'brand" scam phishing emails for 3 years, and smart enough to NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS! LMFAO. still kills my soul a little though

[@ChaoticD3sTroYeR]

Muta, you're creating a challenge that some people will feel the need to meet.

[@lordkanti8260]

A lot of these hacked channels are repurposed as Movie pirating channels that run for a few minutes before removing the video and doing it all over again

[@KoliKami]

Some random hacker in Mongolia has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

[@ruinfox4108]

he changed the title lol. he knows he messed up

[@kentrellmyworld5832]

@@ruinfox4108what wss the title before ?

[@expiredgatorade1999]

@@kentrellmyworld5832 something like "why my youtube channel won't be hacked"

[@MOZZY015]

@@ruinfox4108what was the title before he changed it?

[@TheDixieDerg]

The title was something along the lines of "my channel won't get hacked"

[@Ganein19]

IMO, any E-mail that advertises sponsoring something and doesn't use proper English grammar, punctuation, and capitalization, should be red flagged immediately.

[@cake_9510]

I kinda spaced through the whole video, is it a sponsorship thing? Do I need to be worried, or is it a sponsorship related thing like what the comments are kinda driving me to believe? Because of I don't exactly take sponsorships

[@shfunko]

Bro is hitting the bat signal for Social Engineers

[@myphoneglows]

LOL

[@Pepo..]

they already tried lol

[@JamilaJibril-e8h]

​@@Pepo..before me 😢😮 why they just wait

[@bradenyoungblood748]

Why is man leaking aslume files on clearnet

[@fluffyblue4006]

Another small measure that helps a bit, is to install multiple browsers. Use one for generic browsing, never login into anything important on this one. Make it the operating system's default browser. Use another separate browser for KZbin. And another for managing hosts in your own network, another only for online banking. And if possible, compartmentalize your socials, too.

[@BFG_10G]

So, "information silos". That makes sense. I've never thought of that.

[@DieHard1912]

this is def a small measure... Your better off just using tor or brave... Or like you said, use brave for everyday task and tor for online banking, accessing your router provider. information silos? Not anything close to what this is, in fact this would just be detrimental. Increased risk of data breaches: Silos can create vulnerabilities, as each isolated system may have its own security weaknesses, increasing the attack surface for hackers. Limited transparency and accountability: Consumers may struggle to access or understand their own data, as it’s scattered across different systems, making it difficult to exercise their privacy rights. Inefficient password management: Hiding passwords in separate silos can lead to duplicated efforts, increased complexity, and higher risk of password reuse or exposure. Standardized data formats and protocols: Promote standardized data formats and protocols to facilitate seamless data exchange and reduce technical barriers. Transparency and accountability: Support organizations in providing transparent and accessible data management practices, enabling consumers to understand how their data is handled and exercised their privacy rights. LONG SHOT Centralized password management: Advocate for centralized password management systems, using secure and scalable technologies, such as password managers or identity and access management (IAM) solutions BEST SOULTION ATM

[@LuxiBelle]

He is tempting fate again. He literally just got hit with that Sonichu demon.

[@ls200076]

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[@non-belligerentvibes593]

Modern day internet superstitions like this remind me why we have different religions

[@pablopablo1620]

It's actually Magi-chan tulpa

[@zelda_smile]

@@ls200076 💢💢💥💥💥💥PLAP PLAP PLAP💯💯💢💢💥💥💥 ur pfp is 💫💫💫💥💥💥

[@JustSaySteven]

Had this happen to me yesterday and thankfully I managed to cleanse my PC, change all my passwords and lock them out of my accounts before any damage was done. Real scary how they set up fake verified accounts with tens of thousands of followers to seem legit and how the websites they use look so scarily accurate. If my channel turns into an Elon Crypto livestream in the next couple of days though it means I failed lmao.✌

[@samv.3217]

Wow, I didn't know you were in contact with Chris. Thanks for helping him in the background. I hope everything will be OK, I have high hopes it will since the same happened to Nathaniel Bandy and he recovered fairly quickly.

[@Deja117]

The best way to mitigate this, that so so many people forget about... If someone asks to collaborate, request they give you a phone number or social media account you can contact them on. This way you have a direct line of contact to confirm if someone tries impersonating them in the future. If they don't even give you a social you can reach out on, don't risk it.

[@ProtoDeVNan0]

Today: Why my channel won't get hacked Tomorrow: Buy my crypto coin!

[@calle406]

😂😂

[@ashleyjohansson230]

and its an AI of Elon Musk lmao

[@chitbu24]

and he changed the title, lol

[@BFG_10G]

I've lost hope on KZbin. They can't get rid of these pr0n accounts, scam accounts, and crypto nonsense. So the thought of them being quick to respond to hack is.... laughable.

[@shadic1988]

The Sonichu medallion is going "are you sure about that".

[@meooooowB3]

what happened with the sonichu medallion..?

[@TSNVibes]

You know It's a good day when you see muta on your KZbin feed.

[@ian-flanagan]

It’s normally a very very bad day for someone 😅

[@maxpower4370]

Tip: You can use Windows Sandbox directly from windows 10/11

[@DarkForce2024]

Only in the Pro version. Home doesn't have it. (I mean you CAN add it, unofficially...)

[@craigharp-p4n]

​@@DarkForce2024you can also just upgrade with KMS keys

[@KIJYOPSO]

and Hyper V through a bash script!

[@TheKarby]

It can be pricey so Virtualbox works as a free alternative

[@WolfTamer]

I've actually seen real non-profits like SaveaFox getting hacked (twice, once just over a week ago) and attempted to pump some crappy crypto. These people are legitimately disgusting.

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

It’s so easy to get hacked since humanity can be easily engineered to click on links or open malicious files

[@ExceptBacon]

Clicked the video after seeing the title change, and that intro really hits different knowing how hard Muta first baited.

[@Hito_kun]

I think this video needed to also explain some of the workflows to deal with vector attacks. The VM alone won't do anything if you plug your credentials into it, which you mentioned, but there's a big gap in knowledge on how to move forward to handle these scenarios the right way (forward the email to a burner account and open inside the VM, copy the links and then download within the VM). The reason why infosec can be so complicated it's because while, yes, the tools exists, the most important part is knowing what you're doing and why, and I wouldn't want inexperienced users to see this and somehow believe VMs are a silver bullet. Also, for everyone setting up VMs on Window/Linux, make sure paravirtualization is on on your BIOS if your CPU supports it, great performance boost to be had.

[@hiddenshadow2105]

Thank you for your knowledge

[@Demingirl15]

You know im far too internet brained (and half listening) when it took me a second to realize you were talking about an actual pdf file and not a "pdf file"

[@lillexus5589]

Surely there must be a better abbreviation then a literal file format for those people

[@kristofersigmarsson]

Yeah, I've known about this issue of sponsorships for years, this hack stuff. This is why I have never taken a sponsorship deal. In almost 14 years I've been on KZbin.

[@_Ciosu..]

Finally, a big youtuber mentioned and talked about this.. For the past two months, it keeps getting out of control.. A lot of KZbin channels that I subbed too just got hacked and most of them just gone.. I hope people/KZbinr see this video and be more carefull .. Please do not get greedy, it is not worth it..

[@justvintagecrochet]

Here is an easier option than a virtual machine , which creators like me find too complicated. If a potential sponsor reaches out and wants you to review a contract or talking points via a PDF, just let them know that you do not open PDFs, and they can send you the contracts and talking points to your PO Box , you will obviously need a PO Box ( if you are in the US, Im not sure what they are called in other countries, but get one!) , they usually cost about $200 a year , and they are nice to have because it has been my experience that viewers relly like to send creators things relevant to your content, and its a Tax write off. Time to embrace old school, it's safer! ( yes, I have a sponsor, we do business through the mail, I learned this lesson when I was at about 5k subs and was sent a PDF from a game sponsor, and I downloaded malware to my computer, I now have a new computer and lessons learned, sponsors will have no problem working with you via snail mail, your reach is worth the extra effort on their part.

[@jazza422]

an easier approach is to simply open the file on your phone or maybe an android VM, much harder to accidentally run something that way

[@justvintagecrochet]

@ I hear you, I feel that even using a phone is not safe because you will fill out a contract with your personal info, maybe pay a paralegal to look it over er for you only to send that info back into the hands of a scammer, if a sponsor is legit and serious about working with you, they will be happy to use the mail, scammers will insist on digital dealings. This approach will weed out those with nefarious intentions

[@nolo3]

most PDFs you can just view right in gmail/browser without downloading it at all.

[@Ryfael]

​@@justvintagecrochetthey won't use mail unless you have an exceptional channel, they will just skip and go to the next channel. The best thing would be to use an cheap PC with an email just for your channel.

[@allegorx58]

lol there are at least 10 easier ways to go about this

[@bennyok4725]

Love how muta changed the title an hour after release, making the whole first section of the video impossible to understand for people who do not have context

[@2nd_Slither]

I've been a fan of Irate Gamer since I was a kid back in '09. It is unbelievably unfortunate to hear his channel was hacked and deleted. I pray from the bottom of my heart that he can get his account back. So many childhood memories made from that channel, gone in an instant. I hope the same for all of these other channels as well. This is unacceptable, and KZbin NEEDS to do something to fix it.

[@cookiehead.]

original title: 'Why My KZbin Channel Won't Be Hacked..'

[@Omkar-Naik]

Hackers would have taken it as a challenge. 😂

[@Myrkanth]

My sons account was hacked this same way. All his videos gone, replaced, and banned by youtube. After getting the "Sorry we can't help you cause of rules" email, my response to them was shaming them for not even bothering to check IP geo location of a teenagers account. Plus that he was not some crypto marketer. 2 days later we get an email for changing his account password.

[@BackwoodsClips]

He just gave a challenge to 3.84 million people this might be the boldest title on KZbin

[@Kobi]

I was the guinea pig here, my channel got nuked on the 23rd of nov. Still paranoid :) W video muta, also I believe my issue was a key log but can't confirm. I tried to tweet at you but I know you don't use it anymore

[@slxdy]

Didnt he disable his twitter acc?

[@BFG_10G]

You're gonna have to email him, because his X account is disabled by him.

[@Kobi]

@slxdy He did yeah, I don't blame him

[@Kobi]

@@BFG_10G Yeah I remembered that as I was trying to find a way to reach him and a few others, should've emailed him for sure

[@Aliothale]

Did you use any KZbin analytic browser extensions?

[@WesSideLive]

This legit happened to me. Still not sure why my stuff wasn't changed or nothing was touched at least not yet. I was able to get back in Glory To GOD

[@DocterBumSki]

Wes my king 🤘

[@Buoyant_Bear]

This is happening frequently to one of my favorite charity channels, SaveAFox. I covered it when it happened at the time, but Russian hackers keep hijacking their channel to run SpaceX ads nonstop. It's been recovered once but then it happened again. I can't imagine a lifeform more lower and less deserving of empathy than somebody who would rip off a wildlife charity because they're just that immune to getting a job.

[@Inspirator_AG112]

*Condolences to anyone whose channel has been affected by this, as well as those whose favorite KZbinrs have been affected.*

[@aishfan1]

WOW the tips in this video are definitely useful and helpful, thanks so much for sharing! Please continue to keep your channel safe, it's been one of the most entertaining and useful channels I've subscribed to so far.

[@jiminboo]

The Ghost Behavioralist Chris Bores (the dude that offered a ghost a cookie) got his channel hacked. Can see ghosts but can’t see a hacker getting his login info.

[@PuReGhOsTT]

I got an email like this last month... It was from Doritos. Looked legitimate asf! Came from a Doritos email address and everything. I knew it was fake because of improper spelling, but still made them send me a "creator package" which would've contained logos, etc. I opened it in a virtual machine and nothing ever happened. If i had ran that on my actual pc, i wouldve had evening hacked. Haven't heard back from them or anything. Also havent been hacked. Be smart, guys.

[@RatchetRorschach]

do you sign in that email account in the virtual machine?

[@iPodgirl]

@@RatchetRorschachI hope he didn’t…

[@j100j]

I'm impressed that Google lets you change your password and recovery email with only a token for authentication.

[@JOBdOut]

Unfortunately google is not supportive. This happened to me with my 2nd channel earlier in the year - the response was basically "its not actually clear that your channel was hacked" - the channel got banned and a few months later another side channel was banned for "circumventing a ban" - still not sure how my main is still intact (through a brand account - my main account has the "unable to access google product" ban after recovery)

[@PedroBorgesNH]

The real problem here is youtube has no way of beign contacted unless you have a big channel or have good connections. My friend got his channel hacked and receive absolutely no help from youtube, he had 20k subscribers and lived off of it as his content was very nieched. i don't know why youtube don't ask for a OTP code to change sensitive information of a channel.

[@TheTruthDragonNJ09]

FYI: Certain websites automatically sign you out (use short lived cookies) for the reasons laid out at 19:14

[@Elder_Wyvern]

The fact that you can't bring a channel back because of violations made BY THE HACKER is insane and youtube should really take a look at that policy once again, because that's ridiculous. Time to become a paranoid cybesecurity nutjob and protet my hard earned 322 channel subs

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Another KZbinr I follow, Savox, ended up getting his channel hacked twice. The first time he didn't do anything wrong, not even clicking a bad link as he explained. Somehow, hackers got their meaty little hooks into his channel and it took a bit with KZbin's help just to get it back. Even after doing some extra security measures, he still got hacked again after that. His channel is back to normal but it's enough to make you paranoid that your channel can just be taken just like that.

[@MidnightMustang]

The meat of the video: 9:10

[@JJFX-]

As someone with decades of computer experience it's still surprising that techy-savvy people fall for some of this but I understand it. What happened to Jim Browning awhile back was more clever but a lot of that was Google's fault. One other simple thing everyone reading this should do is enable file extensions to be displayed in Windows so there's no mistaking what the real extension is. Open file explorer, View, Options, then uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" under the view tab. This still not being the default behavior has caused so many avoidable problems. Also, this should go without saying but keep in mind that while VMs are great at keeping things from getting out, they aren't necessarily good at stopping something from getting in. I've seen people use them in ways that they clearly didn't understand. Unless you really know what you're doing, don't use them to for sensitive info on the assumption that it's safer if the host machine could get compromised. Running security focused Linux distros in a VM is an especially bad idea and defeats the whole purpose.

[@TheTamaranch]

Is that a challenge?

[@legxcii4778]

One of my favorite youtubers "FunWithGuru" got hacked 2 weeks ago. Dude been on yt for 10+ years but got hacked at 830k subs...

[@hi-friaudioman]

0:20 i will not get hacked... Gets hacked. Lol

[@festro1000]

The idea of something being being anything-proof is overrated and dangerous, people get careless when when sold on a sense of false security. I remember when people were peddling Apple as "unhackable" back when their biggest product was the Ipod touch (Best thing that ever came from them imho), then everyone started buying it because hackers are scary and then Apple was all of a sudden a valid target as they were a popular choice whose demographic had deep wallets.

[@JamesRichardsPlays]

You're not paranoid. You're just technically literate and actually paid attention. XD

[@cr_cryptic]

I’d hate to break it to you bro, if you gave them access via Google Login, a VM won’t help you because Google is going to save a Key in that browser anyways to log you in. 😟

[@nutterbutter5019]

Could using a vm + private browsing help? Cuz isn’t private browsing meant to not keep keys and such?

[@DavitHayrapetyan-tc1uj]

I think you just dont login to any account in google on a VM and ur good to go

[@nutterbutter5019]

@ ahh ok ok

[@zeke7100]

So it turns out there is some actual psychological aspects at play here when it comes down to scammers sending emails that are so obviously fake due to poor english, unprofessionalism, etc. They purposely do that to weed out the people who will be skeptical, and the people they are targeting may not be old enough, or might be too old (boomers) to realize there is an issue. So they are directly cutting out how many people will respond. It seems counter-intuitive but makes sense. The ones you have to watch out for are the ones that do come across as professional and have no signs of a scam. Such as the ones Linus fell for.

[@tale_play]

Had my accounts hacked a few days ago. I understand exactly what it means to overgo all sort of measures to recover and change passwords. It's annoying and frustrating. I am lucky my KZbin hadn't been affected although it's quite small, I put a lot of work in it.

[@Alieniz]

You are bold my sir I salute you 🙏🏽

[@BlakePinnell]

A channel called Retro Rick got hacked. I don’t know exactly how, but I do know that they had an extremely hard time getting it back.

[@tomasz9429]

Other KZbinrs: "My fellow content creatures are getting hacked, it's sad, but they have only themselves to blame." Muta: "KZbinrs are getting hacked, here is a 24 minute long video, more than half of which teaches you monkeys how not to get hacked. You're welcome."

[@WigWoo1]

I get 2 to 4 fake sponsorship emails a week. This isn't anything new.. Doesn't every creator get these fake emails regularly? Been happening to me for over 6 years on my 17 year old channel. My channel is just as old as Irate Gamer. We started the same year and I can't believe I was only 11 at the time. Now I'm 28. damn. I feel so bad.. I couldn't imagine that loss..

[@thecoolrich]

Bro has a 99x Factor Authentication

[@JcgLounge]

I’m actually glad I’m not big enough to be getting emails from sketch sponsors. I don’t trust anybody. If someone wants to sponsor me, I need to meet with them in person. Or zoom call them, face to face. A simple call on the phone or email won’t be enough. KZbin/Google needs to fix this. Now

[@PandaMacaroni]

I'm glad that you're back Muta!

[@DuhC0mmunity]

7:11 I bet if SSSnipperwolf got hacked and then the Hacker went against community guidelines, they would reinstate her account in an instant.

[@dreamingace9234]

16:38 Perfect opportunity to say "Just some ordinary gamer"

[@JaxDagger]

this exact same thing happened to my twitch in 2022, replaced my pfp with a tesla logo, bio was just malware links claiming to be crypto, streaming on my channel with 2000 viewers, by the time i was alerted by my viewers and logged into my account i was instantly banned, luckily twitch sorted it for me within 3 weeks, I really feel for anyone it's happening to here like that, I can't believe youtube won't give him his account back

[@deadman5985]

"show file extension" feature should be the default for quite some time imo - not showing it should be opt-in for people that know what they are doing

[@JoeBee9]

Irate Gamer channel being gone was very alarming; an entire playlist worth of videos wiped at once was alarming for sure and drew me to check on his channel only to see it taken down. He has quite a legacy so it's a shock to just see it blank out just like that.

[@Ghosly]

2:30 that’s why I always have show file extensions enabled on file explorer

[@mintt_tiramisu]

the channel i work for has been hacked a couple times, they were able to get it under control luckily but it was pretty scary for a bit

[@robertnapier624]

The next video after this: “why my KZbin channel got hacked…”

[@Jordan_Warrington]

Please do a full video on cubes. I've been looking at it for a while and would love to know more. If you could do a break down of pros and cons that would be great.

[@2917l8]

Bro changed the title 😭

[@Serliu]

Lmfao I saw it too. Wasn’t it like “why my channel will never be hacked”? Or something like that?

[@2917l8]

@@SerliuYea lol

[@pvp216]

lmao

[@Ricky-uf8kj]

Yall gonna go crazy when you figure out how the algorithm works

[@Shroud66]

How do you prevent getting hacked?! 😧 Gee I dunno how about: 1. Don't click shady links/files. 2. Send them through a virus checker. 3. Just basic googling about if there is a (insert link/file name) scam . 4. Keep repeating until you learn basic safety or red flag indication.

[@raynersclips4223]

I do the good ole “tell me your password or you’re gay” trick my self

[@apIthletIcc]

Even if you never use a VM this is a video everyone really needs to see to understand the attack vector and how to avoid them

[@Ryan-et3sx]

mutahar is going to end up like that one guy who put his social security number on an advertisement saying he would never be a victim of identity fraud only to end up so.

[@tutacat]

One note to add, using WSL directly on your host is not a safe usecase, because the Linux VM running gets access to the full Windows storage, if you want to use WSL either use flatpak applications and revoke file permissions with Flatseal, or run things inside a chroot container or just a normal VM. Also Wine by default is able to access your documents folder, and able to mount other locations from your storage if they detect it is wine.

[@apochsdotnet]

Happened to my old channel. Wa so old youtube couldnt do anything. I didnt do muh with it, had a few videos I just downloaded and have on an externql hard drive. They just got that password from an old leak somewhere. Sucks for Irate Gamer. You'd imagine if it's still active yt would be able to handle retrieving it.

[@uncleweirdbeard86]

FINALLY someone is covering this that has a lot of reach. I have been doing what I can to report channels that appear to have been hacked as they show up in my feed. They arent just pushing crypto scams, they are also re-uploading content from other channels, showing full episodes\movies, or just uploading str8 up AI generated content. Many of them I have seen show clips form shows and TVs in the form of shorts. They always have royalty free music overlayed in the clip that more often than not doesnt match the tone of the scene. Effected channels are somewhat easy to spot if you know what to look for. Things you can check is upload frequencies, sudden changes in content, random disclaimer that claims everything in the video is fair use and to contact the channel owner instead of reporting it, emojis everywhere, poor grammar, compilation videos that seem spliced or have clips that cut off abruptly, ect

[@ArroganciaVerdadeiro]

denunciar canais hackeado só põe em risco o canal de ser deletado em vez de ser recuperado

[@uncleweirdbeard86]

@ArroganciaVerdadeiro KZbin wont translate this for me for some reason

[@nelsonta00]

Hackers: *cracks knuckle* Challenge accepted.

[@ChrisMIA]

cant align more with you mutahar, i've got multiple USBs with lives, and each computer has multiple partitions with at least 2 OS's, one for main use, and another in emergency where i can quickly swap during suspicious activity of main OS, load the other, scan the crap out of everything on the infected partition, and if that goes wrong ofc theres usb live's that will continue the process. I've had some interesting experiences with students in Zoom where one older gentleman pretended he was dumb trying to learn programming, and midpoint the connection fell off for 10 seconds, and my MouseWithoutBorders started acting up and being tagged by my antivirus as acting suspiciously, so i cut the session, and proceeded with my scans and purging. Another case where something snuck onto one of my backup hard drives and for the life of me had been fighting over and over the same issues until i realized an old PC backup was infected and the files existed on my hard drive so a couple weeks of scanning and checking modification dates/logs later i cleaned it up. This stuff is going to get worse and worse with more clever attack vectors, especially with god knows how many zero days exist on the dark market...

[@greengym2336]

Is this about Johnstone? That guy got hacked and I was pretty worried about it.

[@Freeze_Art]

I was hacked one time and they took my Discord and my emails. I was so lucky enough to be able to be on top of the hacker and I got all my stuff back. I have since then changed all my stuff and keep my stuff locked down. I got a message from a trust friend that was very convincing, but they were hacked and I clicked the link :/

[@mysteriousweeb]

Micro strategy my worst enemy (hacked me twice)

[@maurice84]

A bit easier to use is the Windows Sandbox feature. It's ephemeral, thus you'll always have a clean sandbox when starting, and it starts fast! It's what I use for years in my IT career to develop scripts for custom software.

[@ProdJakera]

0:35 i tried to guess your password. where's my bounty?

[@rbaz9454]

18:52 You say dont login to any account while using a virtual machine? So how does this protect the KZbinrs when they are getting hacked due to emails and the fake pdf files they receive? How are they supposed to open the email without logging in?

[@RetroHabit82]

I swore Muta's channel got hacked by that thumbnail😂

[@imelusivexd]

i didn’t fall for the sponsor thing, but i did get hacked in the past, and it was turned into a spacex channel 😭 soul crusher

[@jaketorres1298]

not confident enough that he had to change the title of his video lol

[@phrogtesem9410]

A very unique KZbin channel about online OPSEC that you didn't mention is "The Hated One", who does a lot of privacy content and has many good recommendations about security.