One question, have you considered the possibility that it was Lazarus? They've been going around hacking people using very similar techniques. Since you were on a crypto telegram, they may have posted to try an catch crypto employees, but accidentally found you. They probably decided to take a crack at you anyways. Heck, North Korea is probably pro crypto TBH.
I would have said there's no way, but the hacks attributed to Lazarus in the last month have been pretty consumer level, so now I'd say "anything's possible". but I doubt it. there's a LOT of cryptocurrency thieves in the world and only a vanishingly small number of them are in North Korea.
Go change the batteries on your carbon monoxide alarm. If someone wanted to target you and had the technical capabilities needed for these attacks, 1. you wouldn't know about it, and 2. they would have accomplished something.
I hope you get it figured out. I enjoyed almost every single word of this - joy from each word as I read. Thanks for sharing. It’s definitely something but I don’t think there is much personal interest in our activity as we’re lead to believe when hacked this badly. It happened to me and I’m doing well after much struggle and loss. The purpose of this type of thing you’ve described with activating cameras and audio
I imagine is most commonly used for the purpose of data mining and theft of information to overtake accounts. While I believe many of these strong attacks stem from a personal targeted attack, they seem to progress in a way that is useful to many (from criminals to scientist to companies / criminal companies and spiritual / cult like beliefs from groups).
If you think about it (please do, it will help)
Who wants to watch us that way? It’s very unappealing to view someone from that angle and it isn’t very difficult to merely spy (all things considered).
I’m aware that there have been json tool lots on my devices that transcribed all audio to text and databased all video (as you’ve described in searching for logs of the data after testing by making sure to be in front of the camera for certain activity). Consider what use this is for people.
I’ve been part of at least 2 large hacking groups. I’ve also gone to the library I’d never been before without anyone near me I’d ever met and left everything behind for the day to create a Gmail account and message Apple, Samsung, the fbi internet cyber crime division, the fcc, Amazon, my financial group, Google, and Microsoft, and utility companies.
My financial institution was hacked from MY DEVICE somehow. I changed the names of my checking and savings because it was an option. The next day there was a notice to members that they’d changed the system and that “Main” is referring to the first checking account created while “Save for Life” is the savings. That’s as weird as it gets. They obviously couldn’t change it back or explain it so they said it was them (the bank) who updated the account names. It get so much deeper but it won’t help to go on.
If you take a step back every so often, write down things By hand when making financial transactions, don’t sign in to anything (even with an “anonymous” username, and a million other tactics you have probably found by now, you can step away long enough to help yourself.
Isn’t your health, happiness, and well being the first most important thing?
I love that this is posted and made available but not that you’ve had to experience it. There’s a level of awe that comes with this type of intelligence even though it’s at the detriment of the public. I’m certain that many unwitting participants are being charged additional amounts across all transactions and harvested for data to process for social behaviorism marketing tactic execution.
I have to do some weird shit if I want a direct line to use my phone. I’ll probably never have it back because my info has been spread across black markets for use to anyone who purchases it (seemingly). I believe I pissed off a hacker about 7 years ago.
Have you ever been into any sorts of mental healthcare ? Like maybe a psychiatrist. or a psychologist to begin with?
This entire story, even after giving u a benefit of the doubt, but after reading your other story, just smells like a fucking nuts guy thinks goverment is about to end him, or some CSI levels hackermans entering his mainframe through smart fork.
Bro seriously, get an appointment, really. No jokes.
firstly, I'd love to know what other piece convinced you of that so please let me know.
second of all, coming across as totally nuts was #1 on the short list of reasons i waited to talk about this publically. i was very tempted to not talk about it at all but some friends of mine who are actual journalists encouraged me to put it out there.
one thing that your post made me realize is that some of strongest evidence for the claims made in the piece... isn't actually in the piece. i only got around to making it presentable/understandable a few weeks later, whereupon expert opinion was almost¹ totally in agreement with me. if you think I'm making that evidence or those experts up take a look at the discussion threads on twitter and reddit:
third of all, this series of events was undoubtedly extremely bad for my mental health. my friends / family who witnessed the situation unfold in whole or in part would be happy to tell you that they were starting to have Genuine Concerns about my mental state right after they confirm that connecting to my home network gave their computer a case of The Malwares and other important facts.
in fact a big part of why i wrote this was to try to convey the ways in which getting hacked is often more dangerous to one's mental health than to one's bank account. from your response i would say that i succeeded, which makes me happy... but if you're actually concerned you should know that at this point i don't go through my days concerned about being surveilled by shadowy foreign hackers (or the government, or whoever). this entire episode lasted ~1 week, after which it took another ~3-5 weeks for my levels of fear and loathing meter to return to their place as every day background noise.
oh and to finally actually answer your question: yes. in fact I was treated by a mental health professional throughout this experience, which was very helpful.
¹ I only use the qualifier "almost" because one expert out of a whole bunch told me that in his opinion there was at least a small chance the events were the result of paranoia instead of malice... but he still leaned in favor of malice, all things considered. everyone else had no doubt.
One question, have you considered the possibility that it was Lazarus? They've been going around hacking people using very similar techniques. Since you were on a crypto telegram, they may have posted to try an catch crypto employees, but accidentally found you. They probably decided to take a crack at you anyways. Heck, North Korea is probably pro crypto TBH.
I would have said there's no way, but the hacks attributed to Lazarus in the last month have been pretty consumer level, so now I'd say "anything's possible". but I doubt it. there's a LOT of cryptocurrency thieves in the world and only a vanishingly small number of them are in North Korea.
Jesus christ this is the most terrifying thing I've ever read in my life.
Go change the batteries on your carbon monoxide alarm. If someone wanted to target you and had the technical capabilities needed for these attacks, 1. you wouldn't know about it, and 2. they would have accomplished something.
I hope you get it figured out. I enjoyed almost every single word of this - joy from each word as I read. Thanks for sharing. It’s definitely something but I don’t think there is much personal interest in our activity as we’re lead to believe when hacked this badly. It happened to me and I’m doing well after much struggle and loss. The purpose of this type of thing you’ve described with activating cameras and audio
I imagine is most commonly used for the purpose of data mining and theft of information to overtake accounts. While I believe many of these strong attacks stem from a personal targeted attack, they seem to progress in a way that is useful to many (from criminals to scientist to companies / criminal companies and spiritual / cult like beliefs from groups).
If you think about it (please do, it will help)
Who wants to watch us that way? It’s very unappealing to view someone from that angle and it isn’t very difficult to merely spy (all things considered).
I’m aware that there have been json tool lots on my devices that transcribed all audio to text and databased all video (as you’ve described in searching for logs of the data after testing by making sure to be in front of the camera for certain activity). Consider what use this is for people.
I’ve been part of at least 2 large hacking groups. I’ve also gone to the library I’d never been before without anyone near me I’d ever met and left everything behind for the day to create a Gmail account and message Apple, Samsung, the fbi internet cyber crime division, the fcc, Amazon, my financial group, Google, and Microsoft, and utility companies.
My financial institution was hacked from MY DEVICE somehow. I changed the names of my checking and savings because it was an option. The next day there was a notice to members that they’d changed the system and that “Main” is referring to the first checking account created while “Save for Life” is the savings. That’s as weird as it gets. They obviously couldn’t change it back or explain it so they said it was them (the bank) who updated the account names. It get so much deeper but it won’t help to go on.
If you take a step back every so often, write down things By hand when making financial transactions, don’t sign in to anything (even with an “anonymous” username, and a million other tactics you have probably found by now, you can step away long enough to help yourself.
Isn’t your health, happiness, and well being the first most important thing?
I love that this is posted and made available but not that you’ve had to experience it. There’s a level of awe that comes with this type of intelligence even though it’s at the detriment of the public. I’m certain that many unwitting participants are being charged additional amounts across all transactions and harvested for data to process for social behaviorism marketing tactic execution.
I have to do some weird shit if I want a direct line to use my phone. I’ll probably never have it back because my info has been spread across black markets for use to anyone who purchases it (seemingly). I believe I pissed off a hacker about 7 years ago.
So, real question, im not fucking kidding dude.
Like i've red 2 of your longassreads, right.
Have you ever been into any sorts of mental healthcare ? Like maybe a psychiatrist. or a psychologist to begin with?
This entire story, even after giving u a benefit of the doubt, but after reading your other story, just smells like a fucking nuts guy thinks goverment is about to end him, or some CSI levels hackermans entering his mainframe through smart fork.
Bro seriously, get an appointment, really. No jokes.
firstly, I'd love to know what other piece convinced you of that so please let me know.
second of all, coming across as totally nuts was #1 on the short list of reasons i waited to talk about this publically. i was very tempted to not talk about it at all but some friends of mine who are actual journalists encouraged me to put it out there.
one thing that your post made me realize is that some of strongest evidence for the claims made in the piece... isn't actually in the piece. i only got around to making it presentable/understandable a few weeks later, whereupon expert opinion was almost¹ totally in agreement with me. if you think I'm making that evidence or those experts up take a look at the discussion threads on twitter and reddit:
https://twitter.com/Cryptadamist/status/1570167937381826560
https://www.reddit.com/r/Malware/comments/xeoo5g/novel_pdf_malware_injecting_javascript_into_the/
third of all, this series of events was undoubtedly extremely bad for my mental health. my friends / family who witnessed the situation unfold in whole or in part would be happy to tell you that they were starting to have Genuine Concerns about my mental state right after they confirm that connecting to my home network gave their computer a case of The Malwares and other important facts.
in fact a big part of why i wrote this was to try to convey the ways in which getting hacked is often more dangerous to one's mental health than to one's bank account. from your response i would say that i succeeded, which makes me happy... but if you're actually concerned you should know that at this point i don't go through my days concerned about being surveilled by shadowy foreign hackers (or the government, or whoever). this entire episode lasted ~1 week, after which it took another ~3-5 weeks for my levels of fear and loathing meter to return to their place as every day background noise.
oh and to finally actually answer your question: yes. in fact I was treated by a mental health professional throughout this experience, which was very helpful.
¹ I only use the qualifier "almost" because one expert out of a whole bunch told me that in his opinion there was at least a small chance the events were the result of paranoia instead of malice... but he still leaned in favor of malice, all things considered. everyone else had no doubt.