Illegal content on YouTube? Beware spammed-out malware attack

Internet users are being warned about a malware attack that has been spammed out widely, posing as a communication from YouTube about copyrighted video content.

The emails, which have the subject line “Your video may have illegal content”, pretend to come from Google’s YouTube team.

Here’s an example…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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