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[โ€“] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you think they were transmitting?

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think they were either computing crypto-hashes and passing on the results back home (via Tor), or they were using my machine to send out several ping/fetch requests over Tor to DDOS some unknown target machine.

[โ€“] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So can this pretty much always be shut down by having sufficiently complex + long pw?

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I want to say "yes" but you should still try to change the default ports for any process open to the web. Just because they can't guess your ssh, doesn't mean they can't upload a root php script to your webserver which allows file uploads.

Just be as invisible as possible. Run nmap on your localhost with the defaults and see if anything is set to open. If so, change that port.

[โ€“] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On Mac its part of security/firewall settings or sumfing

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Ah okay. I have no clue about macs. I guess the equivalent in Linux would be OpenSnitch