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  • Non-Malware Spyware

    From warmfuzzy@700:100/0 to All on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 06:30:24
    My Grandmother was recently hacked big time. It lost her $18,000 Canadian Dollars. The software that rooted her Windows box was not detected as being malware because it had a useful function that people paid for, not something that usually is used to hack systems with. Teamviewer and a product from Citrix were installed on her machine. Both are meant for professional remote system administration. So the anti-virus detected no malware. How these software programs got on her computer in the first place is not known.
    Somehow they did get on her system though. Her box was fully rooted. There was also a third program that was in the same category of Teamview and the Citrix software, but I don't recall what that one was called. In all these cases the software had a legitimate purposes, they just weren't being used in legitimate ways. This is just a heads-up... if you see this stuff installed
    on your box be sure to delete them and run some anti-malware software to
    check for some sort of entry point.

    Cheers!
    -warmfuzzy

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Sp00knet Master Hub [PHATstar] (700:100/0)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@700:100/20 to warmfuzzy on Saturday, June 15, 2019 08:24:00
    warmfuzzy wrote to All <=-

    My Grandmother was recently hacked big time. It lost her $18,000
    Canadian Dollars. The software that rooted her Windows box was not detected as being malware because it had a useful function that people paid for, not something that usually is used to hack systems with. Teamviewer and a product from Citrix were installed on her machine.

    So sorry to hear this, I hope she can get some restitution.

    How did she get hacked? "Microsoft Support"?


    ... Have you ever seen anything like this place?
    --- MultiMail/XT v0.52
    * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org (700:100/20)
  • From warmfuzzy@700:100/50 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, July 04, 2019 01:42:26
    My Grandmother was recently hacked big time. It lost her $18,000 Canadian Dollars. The software that rooted her Windows box was not detected as being malware because it had a useful function that peopl paid for, not something that usually is used to hack systems with. Teamviewer and a product from Citrix were installed on her machine.

    So sorry to hear this, I hope she can get some restitution.
    How did she get hacked? "Microsoft Support"?
    It was some outfit that pretended to be both technical support and was allegedly working with the cops to stop Internet crime---though they themselves were the criminals...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: PHATstar Fishingnet (700:100/50)