What's with these regular "I was hacked"? threads?
by dugan from LinuxQuestions.org on (#583A8)
We get new accounts posting strange "I was hacked" threads fairly regularly, and I'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just a coincidence. I mean (hint, hint) I can't look at the post IPs.
They're all characterized by a) wild implausibility, b) refusal to seek help from anywhere other than this forum (even when people treat them seriously and advise them to take their computers in to be professionally serviced), and c) posting only about their hacking problem and then disappearing
The ones I know about are:
Sept 11, from "RPC" Virus that slows down the copying of files to USB
April 14, from "Cookiemon": Hacker is configuring Chrome OS on my iPhone
Credit to TB0ne for compiling the links below:
November 17, 2019, from "LongDuckDong_69": My LG Stylo 4 Has Been Hijacked by Remote Administrator and OS as Well as Kernel Have Been Modified
August 26, 2019, from "lynxlyon2": System changes
June 26, 2018, from "Lynxlyon": How do you counter a death attack
June 22, 2019, from "Supermarketjedi": Can't update, upgrade or install packages on any Linux OS
March 20, 2018 from "Danwilliams1989": Mounting my phone. How do I stop them.
This list almost certainly isn't comprehensive, but you can already see how regular it's been since 2018.
They're all characterized by a) wild implausibility, b) refusal to seek help from anywhere other than this forum (even when people treat them seriously and advise them to take their computers in to be professionally serviced), and c) posting only about their hacking problem and then disappearing
The ones I know about are:
Sept 11, from "RPC" Virus that slows down the copying of files to USB
April 14, from "Cookiemon": Hacker is configuring Chrome OS on my iPhone
Credit to TB0ne for compiling the links below:
November 17, 2019, from "LongDuckDong_69": My LG Stylo 4 Has Been Hijacked by Remote Administrator and OS as Well as Kernel Have Been Modified
August 26, 2019, from "lynxlyon2": System changes
June 26, 2018, from "Lynxlyon": How do you counter a death attack
June 22, 2019, from "Supermarketjedi": Can't update, upgrade or install packages on any Linux OS
March 20, 2018 from "Danwilliams1989": Mounting my phone. How do I stop them.
This list almost certainly isn't comprehensive, but you can already see how regular it's been since 2018.