Marshal: YouTube servers being used to send spam mail

Security firm Marshal has said in a report that Google owned video sharing service YouTube is being used to send spam mails. These mails are being delivered through YouTube servers.

Bradley Anstis, Marshal’s director of product management spoke on their research findings: “YouTube users have a facility where they can invite their friends to view videos that they are looking at or have posted. This effectively allows them to email to any address from their YouTube account. This is the functionality that the spammers are exploiting.”

He added that the mails originating from YouTube servers have a similar appearance to mails usually sent by the company itself.

However, these mails are full of spam content and links to third party sites. Considering most YouTube users are not going to give much thought about clicking on links in a mail sent by YouTube, this can become a major security concern.

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