Digital Citizens Alliance Criticizes YouTube for Allowing Ads on Videos Promoting Malware Use
The Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) urged YouTube in a report Thursday to stop featuring advertising on videos that promote malicious software. Hackers are increasingly using trusted sites like YouTube to learn hacking skills, with YouTube hosting thousands of videos on…
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the use of remote access Trojans and other malware, DCA said. About 38 percent of the videos DCA found on YouTube related to malware use contained ads from major car companies and others. YouTube parent company Google and the video’s poster split ad revenue from “these malicious tutorials,” DCA said. YouTube “has clear policies that outline what content is acceptable to post, and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users,” the company said in a statement.