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Infection vectors are methods and channels used by attackers to infect computer systems.

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The answer and comments to this earlier question of mine have made it pretty clear that the firmware of a USB drive can be modified via the USB interface (thus merely plugging it into an infected ...
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Can a "clean" USB flash storage drive firmware become infected simply by plugging it into an infected computer? And if so, how exactly could that happen? It seems like it shouldn't be ...
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Can my laptop be infected via Bluetooth? Just by having Bluetooth on, is that possible?
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Running the following code on a linux machine returns the partition tables and partial config of the hard-drive and USB devices. fdisk -l returns Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, ...
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Suppose you have a target machine (desktop, smartphone, server) and that you have any needed knowledge about the target machine to perform the following task. Is it possible to infect given machine ...
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Suppose malware lands and executes on a computer. Could this malware attempt to spread further by writing itself to data files (images, pdfs, docs) and hoping that the owner would transfer or upload ...
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My computer probably had malware. Decided to install linux and do a disc wipe using a linux distro called Pop!_OS (ubuntu based) Can a piece of malware/virus inject itself into an ISO According to the ...
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If I move a malicious file to Google drive, can my other files there get infected? Or can my google account itself get compromised?
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My computer (probably) had malware, and during that time I connected my phone to it (via USB) for transferring files, using as midi, etc. Is there a chance the malware could've spread from the ...
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Compared to a DVD live Tails Linux, how unsafe is using the USB version? I'm trying to help a friend who for years has been mired in the laborious iterative process of remastering their own DVDs of ...
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This is about a PHP7.4 based shopping platform (opencart (v3.0)). For testing purposes I had a dummy set up at site.com/xyz. The admin page of that was site.com/xyz/admin. The login and pw for the ...
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Let's say I know that there is a computer than is heavily infested with viruses (but I do not know which kind of viruses) and needs to be nuked from orbit. And on that computer is a very important ...
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To ease tracking replies and bounces, we send automated emails such as - order confirmations, password recovery, etc with a unique sender address typically like this FROM sup-[custno]-[invno]-[hash]@...
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I chose that title, but there are probably several ways to ask this question. It's all about understanding how a computer (especially desktop, but you could generalize this to servers I guess) can get ...
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Is it possible for a computer to be infected by viewing the link to a PDF file without downloading it? For example, if I opened a link on a website such as www.wordpress.com/somepdfFile.pdf (not a ...
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