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  As SpaceX and NASA made history last week with their fast ever spaceflight together , millions flocked to YouTube to watch astronauts return to Earth.  Tens of thousands of those viewrs unwittingly clicked on videos that append to be official SpaceX livestreams, posted by seemingly legitimate YouTube channels with hunderds of thousands of subscribes. Instead, they were met with "Bitcoin giveaway" meaaseages urging them to send Bitcoin in order to be paid back double - a common scam tactic. Hackers appear to have compromised several high-profile YouTube channels in the past week, changed then channel names to hot-button topics like SpaceX or Elone Musk, and promoted Bitcoin scams. The trend was pointed out Monday by esports commentator Rod Breslau. The tactics appear similar to those employed by the hackers who compromised Twitter last month, taking over verified accounts , including Kim Kardashin's Bitcoin scams. But while the Twitter breach was the results of hackers g...

A top police official in Maharashtra informed on Tuesday that hackers based in China attempted over 40,000 cyber attacks on India's Information Technology infrastructure and banking sector in the last five days. Maharashtra police's cyber wing collected information about the hacking attempts and found out that most of them originated from Chengdu area in China. "According to our information at least 40,300 cyber attacks were attempted in the last four-five days on the resources in Indian cyberspace," PTI qouted Yashasvi Yadav, Special Inspector General of Police of the Maharashtra Police's cyber wing, as saying. Meanwhile, the central government has asked citizens to remain alert against a phishing attack on Sunday that could be used to steal personal and financial information in the garb of official communication on coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the phishing attack campaign by "malicious actor...