Re: Sudden attack is not a clone
Also... whoever thinks hacking is purely based on trust of a human is clearly naive of cybersecurity. Hacking comes in many forms. There's this that is not based on trust of humans but of computers. It poses as a keyboard and can inject vulnerabilities into a system in a few seconds just by plugging it into a computer. There's also this which is a multipurpose device that can act as a serial port, parallel port, ethernet port and more, and it uses that trust (not of humans but of computers) to open vulnerabilities in the system. I could go on and on about ways of injecting vulnerabilities into computer systems. You know that old router you have laying around? That's a gold mine for hackers. And its not based on trust, but based on stupidity: ISPs leaving ports open for "remote management" to "assist" users results in your router being subsumed into a botnet. Trust does not factor into that.
You know those things called "bootkits"? Yeah, those are real programs that you download, and its not based on trust alone: its based on assurance by the website that the software is not infected. And, depending on the malware, it can immediately inject itself into the boot process or wait a few minutes, hours or even days or longer. Did you know that CCleaner, purchased back in 2017 by Avast, was hacked shortly thereafter and hundreds of thousands of users got infected and no one even knew it until security researchers uncovered it? The malware was CCleaner and acted like CCleaner in all respects but one: it would wait 10 minutes after launch and then remotely connect to its command and control (CaC) server and await orders. And no one even knew it!
@61, thumbs up, man. Great post.
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