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Rising wave of cyber-attacks targeting YouTube content creators (www.cybersecurity-insiders.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's more nuanced than that. Collaboration is often initiated by simple, "Hey, can we collaborate?" emails, and that's how these are crafted to look. Legitimate emails of this sort may or may not have attached business proposals.

What is being exploited here is the banality of these kinds of routine business interactions, and it highlights where people have gotten lax in their own practices.

So while I agree that it's essentially people not following the same standard security advice that's been repeated over the last two decades, there's an element of "business dealings are not exempt" that many of these and future entrepreneurs need to remember.