According to Boyd, known as PaperGhost in IT security circles, the link – which pops up over the video and claims to show you how to `hack into Facebook accounts' – was in fact redirecting users to a fake survey page which purported to offer users the hacking software (infected with malware) in return for handing over data.
The information, Boyd claims in his security blog, could also be used for identity theft and hacking your own email and social networking accounts.
"A little free (bad)vertising goes a long way", he said, adding that the YouTube posting appeared to be an array of random World Cup moments cobbled together. "Nothing particularly unusual about that, but what did leap out at me was the likely reason the reason the account exists at all", he said, adding that the World Cup video looks like a lure to get internet users to access the URL.
"Yes, it's one of those surveys where you sign up to nonsense in return for something that probably wasn't worth the time you put into it. More often than not, you'll find you've signed your life away to marketers and also downloaded an infected file", he said.
The video, he went on to say, appears to have been pulled by YouTube, as the Daily Mail "seemingly grabbed the first random YouTube clip they could get their hands on."
"Whoops. That would explain the traffic spike for the spamblog, and also why YouTube have pulled it – looking at the comments from the article, it seems many readers with YouTube accounts have reported the video", he said.
"At time of writing, the video is still embedded - it's pretty harmless now, but I must admit to being baffled how someone could miss the large red box with the 'Hack Facebook accounts' text in it", he added.