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Interesting piece. I’m left more interested in this: > breaking into the encrypted chat platform SkyECC Psychical access to a device or something more technic
by pixxel 3y ago
Interesting piece. I’m left more interested in this:
> breaking into the encrypted chat platform SkyECC
Psychical access to a device or something more technical…
- kotaKat 3y agoSkyECC was blown wide open by LE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_Sky_Global https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_Sky_Global
- taosx 3y agoHow did they manage to decrypt the messages, I thought it's very expensive to decrypt a correctly encrypted piece of data? "About a billion messages were intercepted, about half of which had been decrypted by April 2021—further avenues of inquiry were expected to open as decryption progressed"
- kotaKat 3y agoIn some of the raids they got their hands on SkyECC infrastructure, IIRC. SkyECC claimed "no, that's a fake version of our app" yet they seemingly did have some service disruptions at the same time. They also suddenly claim all the users that got intercepted were using "elaborate fake" SkyECC apps and services, yet oddly those same "fake" apps could talk with actual SkyECC users, so, y'know. Grains of salt.
- dotnet00 3y agoI'd say most things are more technical than access to a device through psychic means ;)
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoPsykers are natural evolution of hackers.
- pixxel 3y agolol! I’m leaving it unedited.
- ta988 3y agohttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20322844231212661 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20322844231212661 It is unclear how the decryption was made, but it talks about how the servers were tapped into including RAM access!
- pixxel 3y ago> Dutch technicians then developed a technique to copy the random access memory (RAM) of one of the Sky ECC servers without causing them to offline Teasing! I wonder how. Thanks for sharing.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoThere’s a number of ways to take a physical memory dump from a server without taking it offline. On Linux, there’s for example Lime if you have root. On windows there’s various other tools, some commercial, some open source. All require admin privs. If you have access to the hypervisor it’s even easier - just direct the hypervisor to dump the VM’s RAM to a file. Most hypervisor tools have a utility for this. If you have only physical access it’s a bit trickier, but if there’s an available PCIe slot and you are very careful it’s possible to dump RAM that way on a live system :)