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How I Got Hacked: A Warning about Malicious PoCs (chocapikk.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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Late at night, I was testing a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2020-35489 (https://github/[.]com/gh202503/poc-cve-2020-35489) that I found on GitHub. The repository looked legitimate, and in my exhaustion, I skipped the usual precautions. I cloned the repository and ran the script without inspecting its contents.

A few hours later, my system started behaving strangely. CPU usage was abnormally high, and after further investigation, I found that a hidden malware had infected my machine. Worse, my credentials, SSH keys, and other sensitive data had been stolen and uploaded to an attacker-controlled repository.

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Why would a security researcher not test vulnerabilities on a test system? This seems incredibly dumb and questions everything about the researcher.

[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Darn… I absolutely would have fallen for that trick, thinking I was being proactive in my security practices. I guess there will always be another vector to attack from.