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How did you know you were a being targetted?
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I was speaking at a Blockchain event in a hotel in London in 2015 and had a quantity of cryptocurrency stolen shortly afterwards. After an exhaustive investigation, using a third party security company, it turned out that my macbook had a known Intel vulnerability exploited via the hotel wifi AP and some code was injected into the firmware. This code was used to listen for keystrokes and ultimately used for lifting a private key.
Apart from that, which happened on the road, I receive maybe three attempts a month to get me to click on a malicious link targeted specifically to me as a result of what I do for a living. My security precautions tend to spot two or three attempted remote attacks on my network each month too.
Stonehedge-
Actually very interesting, the hotel wifi scam was and is common and was the chip venerability was known but never announced till a patch was found.
Feels like they have stolen from you once so they keep trying.
Does bit coin mining open you to more vulnerability? Do SETI still use computers screensavers to work on data as a sort of cloud computing and does that open vulnerability?
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Holy shit that's horrifying.
Edit: I'm just thinking through how this would have worked.
So I guess they got your password, then tried it on a bunch of crypto exchanges? But then you would have been protected by 2FA?
Or they would have needed the private key for your wallet - but you never type that in, you unlock it with a password.
Maybe with your password they were able to SSH into your laptop and grab the private keys? But you're on OSX so that's unlikely... -
I listened to a podcast yesterday and it reminded me of this comment.
It was Darknet Diaries ep. 74 and it was about professional poker players having their hotel rooms broken into and laptops hacked.
Crazy the lengths people go to
lynx
cyclotron3k
Magic of monitoring of traffic going too and from a router?
How did you know you were a being targetted?
As a by line, have 'acquaintances' who are hackers. This is what they get paid (quite well) to do. They do have lots of funny/bizarre stories.