The growing popularity of sites such as YouTube and Revver, which make watching of online videos easier, has opened new doors for the Virus writers.
They develop the codecs, which are needed to watch online videos and integrate some spyware and adware in these codecs, which eventually transfer the confidential information of the user to the writer.
UK security firm Norman Sandbox said that such virus writers are making bundles of such codecs, packing them into a single pack to lure the users to download them as only one package will be able to play all the clips, and the users will not have to download new codecs for every video.
Some of the codecs are useful but majorities of them are just acting as a spyware.
In older days, viruses could only be sent via E-Mail but writers have recently found out a new way by booby trapping these videos codecs and solving their purpose.
Kaspersky Labs said that it is just a matter of time when the writers will get into YouTube, which is a ripe platform for the viruses.
Via: bbc
