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Geek Culture / The attack of the hackers.

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GamerDude
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Posted: 18th Apr 2010 09:13
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Over the past few months, about 90% of my forum accounts, hotmail accounts, and other accounts have been hacked into. Also accounts on other PCs inside my home of which I do not use.

Message to people on forum: If I have posted anything strange lately that would most likely not have been by me, then ignore it - it was probably the work of a hacker.

Accounts hacked so far:
-Steam account 1: GamerDude_HG (regained control of)
-Steam account 2: Slitherous_Snake (regained control of)
-Hotmail account 1: (one on email button - regained control of)
-Hotmail account 2: (my brother's one, on a different pc - still lost)
-Hotmail accounts (3): (not regained control of)
-Ebay (regained control of - for now)
-iTunes (unable to log in for now)
-About 10 other accounts, possibly my TGC one soon too.

This is just a notification to those who have received strange posts or text from me.

I am beginning to believe that the hacker is within the range of my wireless router. He managed to hack past my WEP2 password (strong security rating) and label himself as "<unknown>" to my router. That router is gone for now and it may possibly be sent for investigation if the hacking continues. I am using a direct connection to my laptop for internet now until the hacker is dealt with. (this may very well be the reason of my steam account being banned for the 2nd time recently - hacker thought he would have some fun with my warfare 2 and get me banned).

but still, I have no idea how someone locally can hack my WEP2 password and steal information through my network. He also found out my mother's full name and changed the router wireless name to her name. I have no idea what other information he has stolen, or how long he has had access to our account. He could have stolen our internet account and has been using it, because the internet is very slow at the moment, even though im running it with a lan cable directly from the modem.

thanks

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Diggsey
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Posted: 18th Apr 2010 14:05
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I've noticed an increase in hacked accounts recently too. (Although I haven't been hacked yet). In the last week I've had spam emails from three contacts, each of whom were hacked. (MSN and Gmail)


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Benjamin
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Posted: 18th Apr 2010 15:25 Edited at: 18th Apr 2010 15:28
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Now that you're using wired access to your router make sure you have wireless disabled (if it supports it in the first place). I'd suggest changing the passwords of just about everything you use to something strong (containing lowercase & uppercase characters, and digits), and write them down. Try not to use the same password for multiple things (although for lower security things such as forums you could share the same password), and un-link your Hotmail accounts. Change any security questions/answers you have to something unobvious (perhaps some complicated string - again, write this down). Do a scan with Spybot and some proper AV software to make sure you're not running any malware. Install a good firewall (though I'm sure you already have one) and good AV software. Lastly, don't keep any sensitive information (such as passwords) stored in files on your computer.

What OS are you running, and what kind of software do you use (browser, AV, etc)?
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 18th Apr 2010 17:13
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Is it possible that your computer has a keylogger/ rootkit, and that perhaps your brother used your computer to check his email since the infiltration? You might want to try changing your passwords from a different computer (or even a different residence, like a friend's house).

If the hacker is local, you might want to consider talking to your parents and then phoning the police. If this person is actually present on and using the router, then they're probably within range of its signal. Do you live in an apartment building, or in a house that's particularly close to neighbors? Has anyone new recently moved into the neighborhood? Have you, or anyone you live with, argued with a neighbor, new or old, that you might not trust?

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Anonymous User
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Posted: 18th Apr 2010 23:40
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You cannot hack a WEP2 password without bruteforcing, this would require years for a program to crack even a short alphanumeric password. The makes this form of attack highly unlikely unless you're network key is extremly simple or the default password supplied with your router.

Stealing information through your network is even harder as he'd have to either remotely install a keylogger onto your computer (the least likely method of attack as it's quite difficult compare to other attack vectors) or set up a poisoned DNS and reroute your web traffic for specific websites to a webserver on his computer.

You need to do an antivirus scan with several antimalware, antispyware and antivirus products on all of the computers in your household ASAP otherwise your accounts might become compromised again.

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GamerDude
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Posted: 19th Apr 2010 00:30 Edited at: 19th Apr 2010 00:30
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Quote: "You cannot hack a WEP2 password without bruteforcing, this would require years for a program to crack even a short alphanumeric password. The makes this form of attack highly unlikely unless you're network key is extremly simple or the default password supplied with your router."


The password was fully custom. Here is an example of the layout of the password: Wording946

I do not know how the hacker could have worked out the password so quickly. Only I know the password, unless my brother has gone into the router and has told people (which would be unlikely). But I do know that someone within range of the router was using our internet by getting past our password.

Quote: "What OS are you running, and what kind of software do you use (browser, AV, etc)?"


OS: Windows 7 Professional
Software:
Google Chrome
Bullguard Antivirus (been off for a week or 2 now until i buy it, but i have downloaded no files from untrusted people and i have been in no bad sites - not that i do anyway)
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Winamp
Google Sketchup
Fraps
Steam
Garena
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Free Video to Ipod Converter (DVDVideoSoft)
Free Youtube to Ipod Converter (DVDVideoSoft)
Microsoft Office
Youtube Downloader
IZarc
FEAR 2
GTA: San Andreas
Red Faction
Red Faction 2

thats about all the software I currently have installed.

although, I believe that it's the other pc that got infected, because my brother plays SA:MP and he tries to download hacks and cheats for it all the time. He also tries to cheat at Club Penguin and some of the trainers on the desktop are about 2mb (very large for a trainer).

I have also noticed that before I was banned from MW2, someone was mimmicing one of my teachers from school, and he knew my full name.

But to be honest, I don't get why hackers even do it. It's wasting their life away to cause stress to others.

thanks

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puppyofkosh
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Posted: 19th Apr 2010 02:30
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Have you tried using HijackThis?

http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

Although you can't (or at least I can't) interpret the results to tell whether or not you have a virus or the details of it, you can post your results on some forums, such as

http://www.malwareremoval.com/forum/

and the people will help you to remove it.

I've only had to use it once (fortunately) when everything else I tried didn't work, but if you can't seem to find the problem and you think it's a virus, I'd definitely try it.
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bitJericho
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Posted: 19th Apr 2010 04:45
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Quote: "You cannot hack a WEP2 password without bruteforcing, this would require years for a program to crack even a short alphanumeric password."


Wep2 is easily hackable, unless you meant WPA2, in which case, afaik, only weak passwords are susceptible.

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GamerDude
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Posted: 19th Apr 2010 08:46
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Wait, it was WPA2, the bottom one in the list of encryption options.

Like I said the password was complicated. I don't know how someone locally got in.

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