Linus Tech Tips has been hijacked by a malicious actor and is using it to promote a cryptocurrency scam.
Linus Tech Tips has over 15 million subscribers.
The attackers appear to have ripped a recording of a 2021 session from The ₿ Word conference that featured investor Cathie Wood, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and current Twitter CEO Elon Musk
The attacker appears to have gained access to the Linus Tech Tips channel and changed the channel handle from @LinusTechTips to @teslaliveonline1.
Navigating to the old LinusTechTips URL on YouTube gives the error message: “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”YouTube Linus Sebastian created the Linus Tech Tips channel in November 2008. He went on to found Linus Media Group in January 2013 out of a garage.
The company is headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Linus Tech Tips is not the only YouTube channel targeted in this way.
