Cybersecurity Crisis: What Happened When I Got Hacked and How to Stay Safe
It was a nice sunny day today, In fact it was one of those days when you feel sun rays glistening the entire room, I was enjoying my weekend while i was binge watching my favourite netflix shows alongside configuring NAS for my home server, while i was doing that my fingers crawls on to my gmail and i open my Spam folder and i see 3 mails with the subject “ YOU Have been Hacked / Security Alert “ I was fascinated to see the contents and i get to see this.
At first i was concerned and was also feeling stupid on myself that I got pwned but later on i realized its in a spam folder for a reason, but since my mail Id was pwned multiple times in 2016, 2022 and 2024 as well I got these information from “;-have i been pwned” and below are the results for my mail account.
Digging deeper into this situation I tried backtracing the E-mails and also analyzed the PDF attachments.
NOTE: Never open Email Attachment if its from an unknown sender, especially when the mails are similar to the one's aforesaid. If you're always down to get your hands dirty with such cybary things consider opening attachments in a sandboxed environment like a Virtual machine :)Now the Speech is Over!!! Lets get into some forensics.