I got an email from a fake social media marketing firm in regards to a Sony promotion. The goal is to steal YouTube login credentials and take over the channel. What surprised me about this one is how elaborate an effort they made.

It’s truly heartbreaking—like watching a Jedi join the dark side, but instead of lightsabers, it’s stolen credit card numbers and ransomware. Hackers have the kind of brainpower that could cure society’s greatest ills: fixing traffic lights to always be green when you’re late, making printer jams extinct, or even hacking student debt balances to “mysteriously” drop to zero. But no, instead they choose to lock grandma’s computer for Bitcoin or deface YouTube channels pages with photos of Elon Musk. With great power comes great responsibility… and apparently a deep, personal vendetta against innocent Excel spreadsheets.