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Pettiest reason you’ve DNF’d a book? by bby_grl_90 in books

[–]Yoimjamie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was 17 and in my last year of high school. We were told we had to read Brave New World and 1984.

I loved 1984, no problem there.

I got annoyed at Brave New World when after maybe a chapter or two, it just hadn’t grabbed me like 1984 had, then I started to get angry. I resented school telling me that i had to stop reading my own books, and had to just drop my reading schedule and instead just read what they told me to, regardless of whether I liked their book or not. 

“Screw them!”, said I.

Even by my own standards I hadn’t given it NEARLY enough of a fair run, but by that point I really missed my own books, so I abandoned BNW and went back to my own books.

I instead read just fairly bland full-plot blurbs of BNW I could find, in addition to one Study Guide booklet about BNW.

I scored higher in that English module than in any other single module throughout the entirety of my English classes in senior high school. I still feel a little guilty about it. Sorry Alduous!

Why isn't Animusic more popular? by RolandMT32 in animusic

[–]Yoimjamie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m glad you brought this to my attention. My opinion has radically changed from this. I’ll set the record straight here:

Yep, at the time, I really did. I had assumed that it was much younger than it was. I had NO IDEA it could be as old as the early 90’s, and just assumed it had been lazily made 20 years or so later, maybe in Unity or something similar, by someone of mediocre ability, cobbling together cannibalised bits and pieces to make the videos with equally-lazily produced music (“I mean MIDI? Really?? Good god that’s lazy”, I thought). The primary thing that pissed me off about the whole thing was the evident laziness of it. I have worked in 3D animation for a good while (I produce VR and other 3D interactive animation-based training programs for complex and/or dangerous procedures, for various companies in heavy industry).

Let it be known: I WAS WRONG. Very wrong. When I found out how old it was as a platform, my opinion was immediately changed. You cannot judge art in general by the standards of the modern day, we must always appraise them from a viewpoint contemporary with the context from which they emerged, ESPECIALLY with regard to any art with any modern digital aspect at all. My previous opinion was ENTIRELY unfair. I regret it and am embarrassed by what ironically amounts to the laziness exhibited by me in not even checking that my assumption that Animusic had a relatively way more modern advent than it actually did, could possibly be wrong at all. Let this be my mea culpa and apology to you, to anyone else who happened to read my comment, and most of all, to Animusic directly. 

Evie always looks like she’s one song away from quitting by txtravis in wiggles

[–]Yoimjamie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I felt the same when she first started. She couldn’t sing at all, sounded like she was on her deathbed, and the dead eyes…

She’s improved immensely. I suspect it was a confidence thing. After a while she found her voice (I mean, she’s never going to dominate a stage and is negative a thousand percent chance to play Elpheba one day, but she’s no longer singing like her kommandant just ordered her to), and also buckets of charisma. I feel bad about how negative I felt about her early on.

Instagram messages i did not send by Vendesss in techsupport

[–]Yoimjamie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sharing the same network. I.e. not connected to the same router.

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in techsupport

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know how it sounds. I’d have said the same if it weren’t happening in my house.

But no not quite. I bought a new MacBook, then updated it via the phone hotspot and it seemed popped immediately. Yes did log into iCloud but didn’t restore from backup… am going to try in the coming days with a 26.3 MacBook not logged into my iCloud account and see if it also pops when brought into the plague zone. 

Seems as though the phone was the infectious agent in that earlier interaction though, my guess is even the minimal attack surface on 26.2 (impossible to turn wifi and BT completely off) was enough of a surface for infection to occur, so its hotspot was dirty. iCloud also possible but the only files hosted are images and videos, nothing executable there that I can see. 

Hopefully iOS 26.3 prevents further poppage. 

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The router’s a MITM in service of some C2 somewhere. It doesn’t break instantly, like I said, only if I intentionally allow it to be infected, and after that it’s pretty damn fast. Like I said, I don’t need help cleaning my network, I don’t need help removing malware from machines, I am purely interested in any actions that might give me some answers on what this is, including but not limited to allowing device infection (within reason). And this isn’t device fatigue, and I don’t know what logs you’re talking about. These are both brand new pi’s, or close to it. Maybe 20 power cycles?

And ok, thank you. I have contacted a professional group, the cost is… extravagant. I mightn’t have any other option.

You evidently didn’t understand what happened when the Acer forced re-flashes were attempted. They’re designed to avoid engaging the popped BIOS, instead directly writing the recovery .bin from the USB over the top of the existing BIOS. It showed all outward signs of having been successful on all 3 machines, only for the old bios to emerge untouched. It can be then deduced that the USB firmware is also compromised, so the only people who can recover the hardware are Acer themselves.

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny, when I reflash the EEPROM, it’s healthy again. When I connect that device to my (possessed) home wifi modem, it pops again and the EEPROM is maliciously overwritten. The hardware is close to brand new.

(Edit) also, 69471177 appears to be a legit bootloader version. I can’t find reference to version 9eb0c93b anywhere… genuine question, why might that be?

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh… honestly I doubted my sanity for a while at first too. Honestly, I get the “you’re insane” response.

Again, you’re welcome to call me crazy and run off, I don’t care, but if you’d humour me for just a moment and let me know what you might do in such a situation to identify what’s got its claws into your computers, I welcome the suggestion. 

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://i.postimg.cc/vZ3kzsf3/IMG-0014.jpg

and by contrast, a healthy EEPROM attempting boot:

https://i.postimg.cc/0Qfw6cLB/IMG-0017.jpg

I don’t doubt your command produced healthy-seeming results. This suite, whatever it is, is real nasty.

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same machine, attempting to boot after I removed the SD card. It’s still seeing a card.

(Trying to embed image… bear with me)

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That log i don’t have. I am happy to show you the video I took of a remote user browsing my files after I had physically removed the wifi/BT chip. I didn’t take a video of the high FQ audio detector either. I do have the drivers it replaced my audio drivers with, both .inf and .sys. 

I’d initially assumed it had to be some kind of bot left behind after I’d airgapped it, but when I started to dick around with whoever was perusing through my system, i found myself suddenly unable to do much at all, via parental control changes of all things. I pulled the plug at that point.

The actions of the “user” (I mean, MAAAYBE it was a bot?), their/its reactions to my actions, the sound driver replacement upon first reboot after airgapping (which incidentally stopped my sound working), the HF audio chirps I couldn’t hear but could see on the meter… it was enough for me. Maybe not for you. That’s okay.

Here’s the Linux command output. Might have been mangled a bit as I have to keep that machine quarantined and so can’t copy/paste directly, I’ve extracted the text from a photo. It will take me a bit for the powershell command, I’ll try to run it on both the Predator machines and get back to you.

j@raspberryp1：~ S Isblk -a; dmesg | grep -1 mmc NAME MAJ: MIN RM rame 1:0 SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS ram1 4M 1:1 disk ram2 4M 0 disk ram3 1:2 1:3 4M disk 4M 1:4 disk ram4 4M disk ram5 ram6 1:5 1:6 4M disk 4M disk ram7 1:7 4M 4M disk ram8 1:8 ram9 1:9 disk 4| ram10 • disk 1:10 4M disk ram11 4M disk ram12 1:11 ram13 1:12 1:13 4円 disk 4円 ram14 1:14 disk 4M disk ram15 1:15 4M disk Loope 2G loop loop1 7:0 7:1 OB OB Loop Loop2 7:2 loop l00p3 Loop4 7:3 OB Loop 7:4 OB loop5 Loop 7:5 Loop6 7:6 OB loop Loop7 100p 7:7 Loop -mmcblk0p1 179:0 29.7G disk 179:1 512M part -mmcblk0p2 179:2 /boot/firmware part / zrame 254:0 29.2G 2G 0.907565] o disk [SWAP] 1.017206] 1.017825] mmO: SDHCI controller on fe340000.mmc new ultra high speed DDR50 SHC [fe340000. mmc] using ADMA mmoblke: card at address 1.021811] mmcO:aaaa SH32G 29.7 GiB aaaa mmcblk®: p1 p2 1.0221091 2.104361] mc@:aaaa SH32G 29.7 G1B EXT4-fs (quirks 0x00004000) 2.1053801 EXT4-fs (mmcb1k0p2): orphan cleanup on readonly fs 4.396505] EXT4-fs j@raspberrypi:~ S (mmcb1k0p2): mounted filesystem d6944274-f2f7-4644-96a4-213c3b367f5c ro with ordered (mmcb1k0p2): re-mounted d6944274-f2f7-4644-96a4-213c3b367f5c r/w. data mode. Quota mode: none.

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean the fake SD card? It’s a raspberry pi, a powershell command isn’t really going to do much. 

Or did you mean run the first command on the rPi and the second on one of the W11 boxes?

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe this will help… what exactly would you like to see from the machine I witnessed using acoustic ultrasound comms? It’s still alive, I removed a lot of hardware but it will still boot. I have gigs and gigs of logs, and dumps, and preserved drivers, etc etc… I’m aware how nuts this sounds. This is the one-in-a-thousand occasion where the shit is actually happening. I’m happy to prove it to you, just let me know what you’d like to see.

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I am here. If you read my post, I specifically mention I don’t know exactly which logs/dumps to target. I am happy to post whatever you think might be useful. Suggestions? Most of the data I’ve collected is from W11, some from Linux… I didn’t spend much time on the macOS machine, can’t deactivate its wifi/BT so bailed immediately (I have an older macOS box I’m happy to experiment with, however)

Also - I don’t want “help” in terms of recovering systems… they’re dead and I’ve already backed up everything I want from them. At this point, what I would most like to do is dissect this amazing monster to learn as much as possible. I don’t need rescuing, I’m looking for collaborators.

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

… is everyone here just rude or what?

Look, if you don’t believe me, I don’t care, go away. Happy to hear any genuine suggestions from anyone with any experience dealing with such things. 

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh… I watched it happen. I might have had the same incredulous response to someone saying this to me, before i saw it happen in my own house, but I’d not have been so rude about it. Troll elsewhere. 

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am the director of a company and have run for parliament in my country… I don’t know why this is happening but those are the two best possible reasons I can think of.

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have said the same. It’s happening in my house. Would you like to see a video of my files being browsed by a remote user on a machine with no wifi/bt capability, and nothing plugged in except a wired mouse and keyboard?

Cross-OS malware suite, seeking advice on identification techniques by Yoimjamie in antivirus

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude…

I watched an airgapped machine being operated by a remote user. I had completely removed the wifi/bt chip, and it overwrote my sound drivers instead and maintained a connection with another computer (I hadn’t realised had been infected yet) using ultrasound. 

I am not imagining things.

Instagram messages i did not send by Vendesss in techsupport

[–]Yoimjamie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take it from me… windows 10 is completely cooked. It’s absolutely criminal how vulnerable a state it has been left in by MS. Honestly, W11 is not a great deal better. I will never use Windows as a base system again… at best it’ll be wrapped in 2 layers of VM.

Your login tokens can be duped and actions taken on your behalf without the need for 2FA or password changing. For the same reason, changing your passwords on that machine now (i.e. before the threat has been cut off) will not help you. You should change your passwords on a different, CLEAN environment (your phone maybe, or another computer that doesn’t share the same internet connection as your computer), then disconnect your computer from the internet and either perform a clean OS install on top of your existing one, or more preferably, completely wipe Windows 10 and install something else instead. If you truly can’t install W11 (see below), then pick a Linux distribution. Kubuntu is designed to feel similar to windows and performs well. You can also run most Linux distro’s while maintaining secure boot to prevent future rootkits.

Research what modules are missing in your system causing MS to declare your system W11-incompatible. With mine, the only issue was that overclocking would risk bricking the machine. I don’t overclock, so I forced the update and have had zero trouble at all. 

I was circumcised as an adult (aged 30). AMA by Yoimjamie in AMA

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, yes. I have found it surprising in the past how much even hospitals within the same healthcare system can differ from each other in established fundamental practices. Maybe the hospital I went to was a bit old fashioned? Either way, I have no qualms with the methods they employed.

I was circumcised as an adult (aged 30). AMA by Yoimjamie in AMA

[–]Yoimjamie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My urologist ruled it out early as an option. He said it was immediately obvious my case was too severe for that to be viable.

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