WhatReallyHappened compromised site

[Glass]

This is a heads up for anyone who goes there.

I believe it has now been compromised and is being used to launch attacks against visitors PCs. The attack is pretty sophisticated and AFAICT gives ability to modify the network stack and system shell access. Complete uncontrolled access to the visiting PC.

[JohnQPublic]

I wonder that about Zerohedge also. My computer chokes whenever it goes to that site. I upgraded things a lot, and still it happens. I have not been there in a while.

[Jewboo]

http://whatreallyhappened.com/themes/defaultWRH/date-bg.jpg

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No problems at whatreallyhappened or zerohedge for me:


Windows 7 with most recent Windows Security Updates
Free Panda anti-virus
Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock Plus
Only surf the web using User Account NOT elevated permissions Administrator account



http://www.thepowderblues.com/forum/images/smilies/shrug.gif no cooties in over two years...very fast browsing

[Glass]

how secure do we think other operating systems are these days? I'm concerned with one that people tout is now more secure than its ever been BUT it has major projects going on with IBM and MS.

I'm not convinced any of them are not infiltrated now.

[Jewboo]

I'm not convinced any of them are not infiltrated now.



http://www.blackenterprise.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/07/Computer_trashed_sm.jpg

Yeah...you are probably right. Throw away your computer and stay off the interwebs to be sure. Really sure...


:rolleyes: wuz nice knowing you

[Joshua01]

No problems at whatreallyhappened or zerohedge for me:


Windows 7 with most recent Windows Security Updates
Free Panda anti-virus
Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock Plus
Only surf the web using User Account NOT elevated permissions Administrator account



http://www.thepowderblues.com/forum/images/smilies/shrug.gif no cooties in over two years...very fast browsing

It was unavailable earlier yesterday JB, and I have a Mac, not that crappy Windows shit. It seems to be back now

[Glass]

unless you are running a constant data stream you probably won't notice anything being injected into the network stack. The reset would be undetectable if you were browsing web pages because they come in pieces and you could slide a network reset in and have it unnoticed or at worse a slightly slow to load page which people would not think twice about.

if you have ever played around with network sniffers it is the same kind of behaviour. When you first load them the network is broken while the network stack is modified to allow network traffic capture. There were also other changes evident on reboot. The main concerns are bios modification to network device, hard drive or mainboard because that is too much trouble to fix let alone detect.

this guys web site is not being attacked by amateurs. at least not anymore IMO.

[Jewboo]

...you probably won't notice anything...would be undetectable if you were browsing web pages...unnoticed or at worse a slightly slow to load page which people would not think twice about...



Oh. You present no proof that anything is actually wrong.

:rolleyes: