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October 19, 2021

  • October 19, 2021

Is Your Computer Hacked?


What are the signs that your computer has been hacked or that one of their pots has popped open? What are these services that they're running under your supervision, and how can you stop them from stealing your personal information? Of course, today we'll look at the top five ways for looking for potential compromise in your systems, so let's get started.

For the discussion let me explain like, I'm using a Windows 10 machine that has already been hacked and is under the control of a hacker. The first thing you should do is right-click on the taskbar and select Task Manager from the menu that appears. Once you've chosen task manager, you may examine the processes to determine if any potentially harmful or unusual programs are running.

When a computer is hacked or infected, Windows Defender may issue an alert, and due to the covert nature of the attack, hackers frequently use PowerShell to get access to a system. The issue is that PowerShell does not appear as a tab or window in the task manager or throughout the Windows operating system. On the other side, it would give a hacker unfettered control over the entire operating system. A hacker can acquire direct access to the session by using this PowerShell method. They can also view all of the session's data on the system.

If the victims' computers are running the Windows operating system, the hacker merely needs to log in with an interactive ID and then type in PWD, which will display all of the information about the target system's shared directory. So, if a hacker types in a command like LS, it will list all of the files on the desktop system.

When you've discovered all of the malicious activity in the task manager, the first thing you should do is terminate the task, which will terminate the sessions. The hacker will be unable to access your computer any longer. The second thing to do is open a command prompt and run the Netstat command to view network statistics and observe what's going on in the background. This Netstat command will show you how many active connections are coming from local or remote addresses.

The next thing you should do is type net stat/?, which will display the command's help along with other arguments you may use to check for advanced statistics. The first thing you can do is type in Net stash - a and Net Stat -o, as well as the n operator for network addresses and port numbers in numerical form, and always display the owning process ID associated with each connection, so once you hit that, you can see a lot of the processes and the associated connection.