Timeline for Can being hacked/cyberattacked once make you more vulnerable to being hacked again?
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| Apr 29, 2020 at 17:12 | comment | added | Ben | ...such as attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in WiFi device driver's or the Bluetooth stack. Attacks such as these often require you to be attached to the same WiFi network or paired with a device over Bluetooth, but at the very least you'd need to me in physical range of the WiFi or Bluetooth antenna to send exploit packets. Your PC being compromised gives the attacker a beachhead on your network, within physical range of your devices, if it has WiFi or Bluetooth capability. Such attacks are rare but probably not unheard of. Like I said I'd be more worried about your online accounts. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 17:07 | comment | added | Ben | ...so you'll need to change passwords on other accounts as well to prevent password stuffing attacks. As for other network-attached devices, consider the havoc that the NotPetya worm caused. It first had to get on a network, but once it was on a network, which took some doing, it spread rapidly by using EternalBlue to spread to other devices on the same network. Many times a local network is in a more "trusted" position than the wider Internet, with more services exposed, etc. and open to attackers on a local network. Alternatively, there are exploits that require close physical proximity, ... | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | Ben | If you logged into any online services while your PC was infected, it could have stolen your password with a keylogger. Additionally it may have stolen a session token or created an oauth token it could use in the future. Those might even be able to bypass 2FA. 2FA will decrease your risk significantly where used, but especially if one of the compromised accounts is a recovery email for other accounts, an attacker may be able to get past it. Since you remember your passwords in your head, I highly suspect you either re-use passwords or follow a predictable/guessable (by a computer) pattern... | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 19:33 | comment | added | Ecotistician | I don't save any passwords online, I remember them by head. I have activated 2 factor authentication on all my accounts where that's avalable, what are the risks if I haven't changed my passwords? How would my device affect other devices that were connected to my network?I had an iphone, ipad, and macbook connected to the network at the time. If we go with the assumption that all malwares/viruses have been removed from my PC, and assuming none of my other devices were infected should I be concern about any other network security breach from that event? | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 17:03 | history | answered | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |