YouTubers fell for shady ‘sponsors’ who seized, then sold, accounts

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Vid-slingers had been asking how this happened for years, even while their channels were spruiking dodgy crypto

After years of complaints from YouTubers, Google has pinpointed the root cause of a series of account hijackings: software sponsorship deals that delivered malware.…

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