Private Video Scam Leads to Surveys and Malware

Crooks can be very creative when it comes to luring unsuspecting users into their traps, and in a recent campaign, they prey on curiosity to steer the potential victim to malicious online locations.

Accessing a page claiming to play a video that is not intended for mass viewing is quite a lure, but in this case, a click leads to a trap designed to help cybercriminals make some easy money.

Landing on the “Private Video” location, which imitates a YouTube page, is generally carried out through posts on social networking websites, but other methods can also be employed.

Christopher Boyd of Malwarebytes has observed that, in order to drive the user to the malicious page, the crooks try to deceive them with a message informing that Flash Player has crashed and that an update is necessary; alternatively, age verification is necessary.

No matter the pretext, users always land on a dodgy page, that either delivers a malicious file or asks them to complete an online survey.

Boyd says that, in one of the cases, scammers relied on the cost-per-action (CPA) advertising model to make some money.

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