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Fake Bitcoin Electrum Wallet Ad Discovered on YouTube; Google Says Appropriate Action Taken

Published 03/28/2019, 05:09 AM
Updated 03/28/2019, 06:42 AM
© Reuters.   Fake Bitcoin Electrum Wallet Ad Discovered on YouTube; Google Says Appropriate Action Taken
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Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube inadvertently promoted a malicious advertisement for Bitcoin (BTC) wallet Electrum, with the ad redirecting users to downloading a malicious file.

The advertisement was first spotted and reported by a user on Reddit, who published a post on March 26 detailing how a fake ad for Electrum was luring in unsuspecting users on YouTube.

“It even tells you to go to the correct link (electrum.org) in the video but when you click on the advertisement it immediately starts downloading the malicious EXE file”, warned the Reddit user, mrsxeplatypus.

This article appeared first on Cryptovest

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