Tuesday, April 5, a Twitter account has published a series of tweets claiming the piracy of YouTube channels of several celebrities, asking Internet users to suggest other artists to target.
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Several YouTube channels belonging to world-famous artists, like Taylor Swift, Kanye West, The Weekend, Lil Nas X or Eminem have been temporarily diverted on Tuesday, April 5, have noticed Multiple Internet users and media. On very many channels have thus appeared curious videos: musical extracts of a rapper named Lil Tjay or yet, According to the specialized site The Verge , videos showing a Spanish citizen recently condemned in a very publicized fraud and scam case.
All videos uploaded, which have been quickly removed, referred to a Twitter account entitled “Lospelaosbro”. Tuesday, in the morning, this account has published a series of tweets claiming these celebrity YouTube chain hacards and asking Internet users to suggest other artists to attack. The links it shared are now inactive but many of them have been saved by the Google cache, which shows that videos have been scattered fraudulently on the youtube channels concerned.
Similar hacards in 2018
Contact by The Verge, VEVO, a partner company of YouTube and many artists, specializing in music clips, confirmed that “videos have been posted on the chains of a small number of artists by a Unauthorized source “.
This is not the first time that Vevo is targeted by pirates. On April 10, 2018, a security fund for this service was exploited to change the titles of several very popular songs on YouTube. The Despacito song, artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, who at the time was the most popular video of the platform, had even been temporarily removed.
Two young French, using the pseudonyms “prosox” and “Kuroi’sh”, had been arrested a few months later and judged in February 2019 for these facts. One of them was Sentenced to works of general interest