Dell researcher Joe Stewart reveals the strange case of Dave Jones, who maintains the EEVblog YouTube channel, who witnessed a targeted attack by an unknown user using an automated system to spam his videos by increasing the dislikes on YouTube in huge numbers.
In the age of automation, where even creating websites no longer involves professional designers, but accounts on sites like Wix and Squarespace, it shouldn't surprise us that someone has automated the process of disliking on YouTube.
As Dave Jones explains in the video at the end of this article, the problem that malicious users have is that they can no longer DDOS Google or YouTube servers. In fact, they could, but it would cost them a fortune.
So, in these cases, one way for someone to show their childish anger at a YouTube user is to massively dislike their videos, so that YouTube does not display the specific clip when it presents relevant content in search results.
In this way, someone can "take revenge" on the creator of the video clip on YouTube by influencing the flow of its views.
