Spammers are exploiting
YouTube
to send out huge quantities of spam.
Content filtering firm
Marshall
reported that spammers have set up a large number of bogus YouTube accounts to
forward on spam using the 'Invite Your Friends' feature of the site.
"YouTube users have a facility where they can invite their friends to view
videos that they are looking at or have posted," said Bradley Anstis, director
of product management at Marshall.
"This effectively allows them to email any address from their YouTube
account, and this is the functionality that the spammers are exploiting."
The technique is more effective than standard methods because spam filters
generally recognise YouTube as a trusted address and let the emails through.
A similar attack was picked up earlier in the year which used false
Hotmail and
Gmail accounts.
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