Warning Roundups May Soon Start. Check Your Browser History. Ensure You Have No Remote Management Clients Installed. ( conspiracy )

submitted by goatboy

Last night someone was remote controlling my MacBook Pro and started downloading fucking kiddy porn before I stopped it. The motherfuckers! They were using the 247itsupport remote management client to control the machine. Check machines. Make sure you don't have any management software installed. We're gonna get these sick mother fuckers!

willofthewarrior

How did you remove it? How did you detect it?

goatboy

They were remoted into my machine and actively sharing the screen in the middle of the night. I saw them using it and ended the network connection. Then I blocked all related ports on my router and reimaged the infected machine, making sure the new image didn't have any remote management client installed. I was lucky. A more sophisticated enemy might have disabled the monitor or used a simultaneous user log in.

Tallest_Skil

You deserve it for leaving remote login and screen sharing on.

rhy

Dude if you care at all about your digital anything you should be Linux. Refracta is the only current distro without the systemd poison pill and has been working very well for me.

d3r

You all should switch to linux or better asap. US Intel has backdoors into Windows since 95 or earlier. Apple products have similar closed source concerns. I recommend Linux Mint it is easy and secure and minimal.

goatboy

False sense of security. Many of the backdoors operate at the firmware level and are OS agnostic. At the higher level, anything with the "SE" or security enhanced label was written in direct collaboration with the NSA.

d3r

Ugh, I think you're right. How about a raspberry pi or a similar less popular chipset?

goatboy

Wont matter. If they want you, then they'll get you as soon as you use an infected peripheral, or print to the wrong printer, or attach the wrong NIC, or route through the wrong switch. They have so many ways to get what they want that there is no singular defense. The only safety is to appear as a grey man or noise within the mountain of data they collect.

HitlerIsBlack

Were you involved in investigating that pizzagate shit? How do you think they got your IP? Have you visited any shady sites or have you downloaded any shady shit, that might have malware? Have you done any scans?

goatboy

I have been investigating the pizzagate which is why I posted this to /v/conspiracy , but it's possible I'm being targeted by someone with a grudge against me. I don't know how they got my IP or if they did. I've watch regular porn, but never anything like this disgusting kiddie shit. I've been in IT security for over a decade and luckily was able to catch it in process. The type of client they were using usually has to be installed locally or deployed over a local domain, which has me the most freaked out. If they were able to hack some new way to deploy the client I don't know how it was done.

B_Adder

Anyone you work with in IT Security that knows about your PGate involvement and has a tendency toward serious pranking?

goatboy

No one I can think of doing this. It's a very fucked up prank if that's the case.

HitlerIsBlack

Dude that would scare the shit out of me, i'd probably Hillary Clinton my computer with a hammer.

rhy

She used bleach bit.

HitlerIsBlack

She used that on her emails, she had interns smash her Blackberrys with a hammer.

goatboy

This makes the most sense.

immatureusername

Thats some scary shit.