To try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/SOG/. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. I WANT TO STRESS AND DISCLAIM YOU FROM RUNNING LAZARUS MALWARE. Throughout recording this I ran a healthy bit of actual Lazarus Team malware on this system. This is a nation-state hacking group that is highly sophisticated. If you do not take the adequate precautions you can be putting your digital safety and SERIOUS POTENTIAL RISK. Don't play with computer malware unless you know what you are doing and how to properly keep your system/networks safe.
John, is it wise from Muta to execute random malware on this laptop while he's still having his 500$ 8TB drive still plugged in? (I'm pretty sure he didn't make any backup copy of this 8TB of malware collection, but I could be wrong.) Not to mention that he's probably going to attach this drive to other computers after that. (Infected Boot sector, Firmware, Autorun.inf, etc...)
You do amazing work man. From investigating streamers, covering tech/gamer news, cybersecurity, etc. I'm just impressed with your research, knowledge and effort put into everything you do.
the second I saw the title I got all giddy and said "really!?" out loud my grandma laughed out because it reminded her of when I was young and I would get really excited when hearing news. The video brought out a bad habit of mine lol, darn it muta!
Literally that one joke from its always sunny, where frank is trying to make-up news, so he wanted to go down to the powerplant and talk about how its giving the whole city cancer. Charlie: Holy shit dude i didnt know about that!
@somerandomguyonlineNo, he’s just not broken by life yet, be glad for homeboi instead. It’ll hit him sooner or later do wish him a long, long time in happy land.
thanks for the brief showcase Muta! if you want to be incredibly pedantic, technically you can recover from CIH's BIOS wiping routine, but it requires an EPROM programmer, an easily removable BIOS chip, and a copy of the BIOS you need to reflash the chip with. needless to say, of the many thousands who were infected with CIH during its heyday in the late 90s, maybe a couple dozen actually had that capability on-hand. I can also totally relate to the malware scaring the crap out of you - a lot of my older videos were shot going in completely blind, and there were many a time I got the shit scared out of me by the sudden noises/full screen graphics. enjoyable vid! hope you're able to have more fun with that drive in the future
I remember back in 03 or 04 I worked at a Staples as one of their tech guys and the blaster worm was going around quite rampantly. Myself and one of the other guys spent our own money to buy a bunch of cheap floppy discs and load the fix on them so that we could pass them out to people that came in asking about what was wrong with their systems. People used to actually call us for tech support and we would just walk them through fixing their systems over the phone while we were stocking shelves, lol. We ended up becoming so well known in out area that as word spread people started calling or going into other stores expecting them to do the same things we did, and the company actually asked us to stop. Both myself and the other guy that did what I did quit working there shortly after that, and while I know that it is in no way related to us quitting, the store closed down not too long after that. The economy just sucked at the time.
Shit ton of people work at crap jobs with education that is far higher than what they require because they can't find a decent job in their field or the job is so bad that it's easier to find a job with less requirements. You finish your bachelors or masters and turns out there are no jobs for you or they requite 5 years experience or they pay minimum wage just like jobs that are easier, so to speak. New teachers are very prone to that.@@TheCommanderTaco
Hey Mutahar 👋 I’m a cybersecurity student and the virus investigation series has been by far one of the most entertaining things I’ve watched on your channel 😎🙌
You chose the wrong profession. Please do something you enjoy and didnt get pushed into. Vx underground has the files it sells on harddrives for the last 10 years freely on their website available and you are studying this subject?
You know things are serious when Muta is recording like its a 2005 youtube video. Ive been subscribed since this channel was just starting out and its surreal seeing him record in a more archaic way than he ever has
Well, do note. As much as the country is like it is stuck in the 50s. They have a large state-controlled Cybersecurity division. This division is always working on stealing data or destroying networks of the enemies of North Korea. Now, I am not saying they are successful. They aren't as backwards as they let on. @@XenoTravis
I was hoping Muta would launch everything at once, creating a battle royale of malware. Personally, my money would have been on BonziBuddy winning it all.
I love watching these videos, I feel dumber and dumber each minute that goes by, it's like listening to a magician try to explain a magic trick but the magician is actually magic.
There is no magic. You have a chip in your pc or smartphone called processor. This processor understands the most simplistic instructions like addition, subtraction, dividing, multiplication and can compare 2 values and tell if they are equal or not. There are maybe 50 of such instructions more your computer knows of like understanding that an value with an point in it is a floating number etc but thats it. The only magical about this is the physics of electricity and how it makes your pc execute this instruction in milliseconds.
Just before you said it was a virus investigation with the hard drive you said you were getting from vx (friends of mine as well) I was genuinely so shocked muta got the big NK bullseye! Love these - coming from a red-teamer!
It was reassuring to see you startled by the onset of the virus around 20:37. I remember the first bug that took over my PC as a kid and it was an absolute trip. I thought there was a human behind it actively trying to get something, so I "fought back" against the pop-ups by using a key-bind on my keyboard to spam the screen with calculators, thinking I could turn the tables on the onslaught of pop-ups. xD
Legit, unless you know exactly what the malware does, you should remove (not just disable) the wifi card. There are malwares (plenty of them) that will re-enable and scan networks. I still have samples on floppies from 3.1 and 95 days...
I came here to say exactly this. Muta's "Airgapped" system wasn't truly air gapped per say if he didn't physically remove the wifi card from the system.
The risk of it scanning a network, decrypting the key and accessing said network is pretty minimal, but I guess it does exist. Anyone doing this sort of thing with an unprotected network deserves all the crypto locking they get.
@@krazed0451Its the fact of depending on your area there are open networks in some businesses so people can use net well they are there not anything with a key. If you want to learn at least think of possible risk of deploying by accident and what your playing with.
Hey muta your channel has became the main I watch, your knowledge, and your research is something I truly trust and it’s rare for me to trust any media I watch, you’ve educated me for the last 2 years consistently, and I’m honored to be in your fan base, made a fan art of you and Turkey Tom a while back, you two are my main news sources as I trust you two more then anyone else on the platform, you guys have an amazingly solid reputation, and you specifically, admit when you’re wrong and correct misinformation, it’s honorable
That was interesting, wasn't ready for the "trippy" malware bit though, almost had a seizure at my desk. Damn it's crazy you can pick this all up on one drive n view all that. And it's entertaining how much you chuckle about all this.
I have a CD full of viruses samples from a technical magazine of the nineties. I remember exploring it in a VM years later, on an isolated outdated PC without (physical) network connection. It has from almost very light and just annoying stuff, to hardware breaking stuff and all in between. Very interesting stuff. I think that there is stuff there that could even cause problems in today's systems...
My grandpa told me that my grandma gets a lot of ransomware on her computer. His solution is to log out of her user account, log in to a different administrator account, and delete the ransomware. He said it always works and he hasn't had any further issues... I don't understand.
User accounts (i.e. without Admin priviledges) themselves don't have the authority (privilege) or ability to actually change important OS/system stuff that Viruses need to infect a system. This is one of the most basic and fundamental forms of protection used in businesses and large enterprises. That said, decent Malware has methods to bypass privilege controls and 'escalate' privileges to silently do whatever it wants without the user knowing. She's inadvertently following one of the best security practices but, again, a lot of malware out there can still infect the system from the user level and is virtually impossible to detect with the vast majority of Malware these days invisibly stealing all personal data saved on the system and sending it to a server to eventually be used to steal identities and money in any way possible. Ransomware is old news with RATs (remote access) being the far scarier and more dangerous threat. I'd bet money that she's opening bad emails which is a huge problem for the older generations. I'd also bet that the system is actually infected with data stealing malware which presents no signs/warnings like Ransomware.
Going for my cyber security degree, looking into the analytics side of things (pen testing looks so insane). I have no idea why these kinds of known malwares are not discussed further in an educational setting. Obviously, no emulating this, but even the legal case around it isn't touched on nearly enough.
This video took me back to getting ransomware on my PC as a kid lmao. I was like "jokes on you I don't care about my files, I'm just going to wipe my computer" and I did exactly that. Got everything back to normal and then I attached the USB drive I had in my computer at the time. Ransomed all over again 💀 Super annoying but I also thought it was really cool that somebody could even do that. I still have the USB drive like 13 years later, I never used it after so presumably the malware is still there lol. Shoutout to vx-underground
Somehow, nearly a decade of limewire and pirating games as a kid, I never got any ransomware lol. I probably had 75% of the malware in existence at the time though lmao
I love being informed by something i have no idea, like different malware and what are the effects of said malware. Thanks muta for the informative video
3:05 I agree 100% I would never do anything like this because I am not tech savvy like Muta for some reason I enjoy watching videos about it even though I don't understand it kind of wish I was a little bit smarter but what can I do just sit back and enjoy
Muta, I’m totalling 27 chicks in 2023, I’m trying to hit 30 before New Years but I’m in Aus so only have 3 days left, and to make things worse hanging out with one of the 27 tonight, so I’m getting some tier 1 A+ Sloppy toppy but it’s not adding numbers to my tally!! So really, I only have the 30th & 31st to bed 3 chicks. I dunno man, feeling the pressure… I’ll keep you posted brother ❤
Hey thanks!! I just ordered one!! I'm gonna learn how to make ransomware like you said. Thanks for the tip. I'll be ransoming people in no time, thanks to you! Great topic! You're a great source for the ransom community.
If you think about it, what muta did is the electronic equivalent of a hobby chemist like Nile Red Casually ordering a sample kit of all the world deadliest diseases and their variants for the past 20 years for funsies. Love it, This is solid pen-testing porn.
glad to see some Danooct1 love. I've been watching you two since I was in middle school. I remember Danooct1 doing a ben drowned creepypasta virus that totally scared the shit out of me.
Btw when disabling windows virus protection it's better to do it via powershell or registry rather than the gui, this is because windows will re enable the protection on its own after some time and destroy all your work/analysis/samples which would suck if it wipes your entire 500$ drive
12:56 ah yes a very OUTDATED PC running the late 2021 21H2 Windows 10 version with an i7-7th gen and 16gb ram and probably a 1060 is now considered very OUTDATED I don't mind using your personal computer for whatever experiment you want but calling it outdated when it can probably run the upcoming GTA 6 at 720p is such a fkin Understatement
This reminds me of how dumb I was as a Habbo script kiddie purposely downloading scripting tools that hacked me every time and I never learned my lesson because I kept downloading them.
Did your laptop have a WiFi card installed? If so, could malware be able to detect a disabled WiFi card and attempt to connect to nearby WiFi networks?
I worked in an antivirus company in the late 90s early 2000s when virus alerts were a thing and we had to stay late to get the signature and documentation out.
So I actually use Brilliant, and Muta is right when he says it is the best method to learn Data Science and math. Also, 3blue1brown's linear algebra playlist OP.
Banger muta, just now taking my Google cybersecurity beginner cert flying through it since I’ve been following you and Kenny for a while, thanks for all the good you do in the world brother much love from the Midwest USA 💯❤️
I remember getting the WinCIH.32 virus on my Windows 98 machine in 1998 or 1999 not 100%. It was my 1st PC and my 1st experience with a virus, I caught it in time before it hit my BIOS. Lost a lot of files if i recall right, but it was the CD-rom generation so I had the originals that came with the store bought PC. The late 90's early 2000's were a nightmare for viruses because Microsoft were assholes when it came to computer security, hence the rise of Norton, McAfee ect anti virus software. Not heard of the WinCIH virus in a long time bad memories for sure.
Always love these episodes. Really excited to see what Muta goes for in the future. I'm really excited in the eletric and so forth grid malware and stuff like it.
29:24 I don't know if this is correct or if im completely stupid but I remember that the German government either discussed or approved the use of a Staatstrojaner (roughly translated State Trojan) that is supposed to be used for this exact purpose
Write-protected (i.e. Read-only) drives are just a false sense of security since it's only a software setting that any half decent malware can change like any other user or admin setting. Basically only physical write-once discs like CD/DVD-R and similar are actually safe from malware injection.
10:40 What is actually real is transmission through powerlines. Outlets, powerboxes, meters, etc. Archaic but I am surprised it really isn't happening AT ALL. P.S. That whole thing you were talking about reminds me of Phreaking lol! R.I.P. Analog phone systems... Also also, There are exploits with Bluetooth and WiFi. To fully isolate it would be best practice to completely remove any wireless hardware connected to the machine. Disconnecting Hardware > Disabling Software
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I WANT TO STRESS AND DISCLAIM YOU FROM RUNNING LAZARUS MALWARE. Throughout recording this I ran a healthy bit of actual Lazarus Team malware on this system. This is a nation-state hacking group that is highly sophisticated. If you do not take the adequate precautions you can be putting your digital safety and SERIOUS POTENTIAL RISK. Don't play with computer malware unless you know what you are doing and how to properly keep your system/networks safe.
Balls
HAHAHAHAHAH NO WAY
🤖🤖
lol
may want to put photosensitivity warning on your video. some fast forward moments hurt to watch due to constant flickering
Still waiting for the Muta Vs Kim Jong Un boxing match
Who got winning tho?
@@BlueCheeseLucci our "glorious supreme leader" of course
@ericblakemore3381 Kim would probably hit him with the chemical weapon punch but get disqualified for breaking the Geneva convention
They were going to but Kim's mum said no :(
@@BlueCheeseLucciKim jong un
In North Korean books
Bwahahah thank you so much for the little shoutout 😂 Glad you got to crack open the vx-underground harddrive!!!
we love you, John!
Love your content, John!
Hey John. Nice to see we run in the same circles. I'll be stopping by you, shortly.
undeground
John, is it wise from Muta to execute random malware on this laptop while he's still having his 500$ 8TB drive still plugged in?
(I'm pretty sure he didn't make any backup copy of this 8TB of malware collection, but I could be wrong.)
Not to mention that he's probably going to attach this drive to other computers after that. (Infected Boot sector, Firmware, Autorun.inf, etc...)
Muta would be such a popular professor if he wanted to teach cyber security.
I would be the top student in his classroom
If his knowledge wasn't so antiquated maybe.
he'd fit right in to the sleazy cybersecurity professors.
@neil1982 please educate us then?
@@anthonykarnes6804pay no heed to the attention seekers
Muta is the only guy i know, who giggles and jokes around as he gets hacked. Bless his mad mind.
He’s just slowly losing his sanity lol
hes a closet hacker dont be fooled
@@EAGLEVISION666 Couldn’t name a more insanity induced skill lol
Basically Homeless would like a word
He does everything inside a virtual machine, he doesn't care.
You do amazing work man. From investigating streamers, covering tech/gamer news, cybersecurity, etc. I'm just impressed with your research, knowledge and effort put into everything you do.
Wtf I rarely ever see any gifted comments around YT comments 🎉🎉
@@dragz i didnt even know it was a thing until now, kinda neat
@@altcut02 It's the thanks button next to download and share
lil bro donating to a rich youtuber
i know must.
"malware that targets chastity belts" is not something I expected to EVER read
And even worse, it was ransomware.
Guess what it'll hold for ransom...
@@jannikheidemann3805 Uhm... Credentials?
Makes sense honestly.
@@jcdenton4534 lmao .. how? I don't even understand how tf a chastity could be digitally compromised. You know what?... I don't want to know .. lol
@@THE-X-Force People buy all kinds of weird bluetooth gear on the internet....
Muta getting hacked by North Korea is the ultimate flex
Cringe
Such an epic flex 😐🙄
What are goofy top 2 replies that is legit the ultimate flex to be hacked by North Korea
Cringe
Cringe
the second I saw the title I got all giddy and said "really!?" out loud my grandma laughed out because it reminded her of when I was young and I would get really excited when hearing news.
The video brought out a bad habit of mine lol, darn it muta!
wholesome
Literally that one joke from its always sunny, where frank is trying to make-up news, so he wanted to go down to the powerplant and talk about how its giving the whole city cancer.
Charlie: Holy shit dude i didnt know about that!
That was a good read. So sweet ❤️
@somerandomguyonlineNo, he’s just not broken by life yet, be glad for homeboi instead.
It’ll hit him sooner or later do wish him a long, long time in happy land.
@somerandomguyonline you sound like such a treat to be around.
thanks for the brief showcase Muta! if you want to be incredibly pedantic, technically you can recover from CIH's BIOS wiping routine, but it requires an EPROM programmer, an easily removable BIOS chip, and a copy of the BIOS you need to reflash the chip with. needless to say, of the many thousands who were infected with CIH during its heyday in the late 90s, maybe a couple dozen actually had that capability on-hand.
I can also totally relate to the malware scaring the crap out of you - a lot of my older videos were shot going in completely blind, and there were many a time I got the shit scared out of me by the sudden noises/full screen graphics.
enjoyable vid! hope you're able to have more fun with that drive in the future
its spelled democrat
I remember back in 03 or 04 I worked at a Staples as one of their tech guys and the blaster worm was going around quite rampantly. Myself and one of the other guys spent our own money to buy a bunch of cheap floppy discs and load the fix on them so that we could pass them out to people that came in asking about what was wrong with their systems. People used to actually call us for tech support and we would just walk them through fixing their systems over the phone while we were stocking shelves, lol. We ended up becoming so well known in out area that as word spread people started calling or going into other stores expecting them to do the same things we did, and the company actually asked us to stop. Both myself and the other guy that did what I did quit working there shortly after that, and while I know that it is in no way related to us quitting, the store closed down not too long after that. The economy just sucked at the time.
A real life superhero
That is the funny part about working retail. Sometimes your skills are just too good, and it makes the other stores look incompetent by design lol.
lol@@TheCommanderTaco
Couldn't you have started up your own "business" with that knowledge tho
Shit ton of people work at crap jobs with education that is far higher than what they require because they can't find a decent job in their field or the job is so bad that it's easier to find a job with less requirements. You finish your bachelors or masters and turns out there are no jobs for you or they requite 5 years experience or they pay minimum wage just like jobs that are easier, so to speak. New teachers are very prone to that.@@TheCommanderTaco
Hey Mutahar 👋 I’m a cybersecurity student and the virus investigation series has been by far one of the most entertaining things I’ve watched on your channel 😎🙌
I'm curious you are in cybersecurity but you think this is hot shit, could you even solve the first problem on advent of code?
@@deadlock_problem as if you could
@@deadlock_problembro is in every reply trying to shit on people😂 got the saddest life going.
@@Jake-vu9mu Solved 15 problems last year in Haskell. Go flip more burgers jake
You chose the wrong profession. Please do something you enjoy and didnt get pushed into. Vx underground has the files it sells on harddrives for the last 10 years freely on their website available and you are studying this subject?
jeez, didn't know the completionist's ties went that deep.
Nahhh that’s wild
Completionist really out here with international ties against Muta
Lmaoo
😂
💀
You know things are serious when Muta is recording like its a 2005 youtube video.
Ive been subscribed since this channel was just starting out and its surreal seeing him record in a more archaic way than he ever has
Being hacked by North Korea must be almost as crazy as hacking North Korea
This sentence broke my brain Idk why but I had to reread it a bunch.
No. Can you hack North Korea? I don't think so. Can you download this malware and double click on it? Yes.
Well, do note. As much as the country is like it is stuck in the 50s. They have a large state-controlled Cybersecurity division. This division is always working on stealing data or destroying networks of the enemies of North Korea. Now, I am not saying they are successful. They aren't as backwards as they let on. @@XenoTravis
NK's state hackers are actually REALLY good. Surprisingly good. Lazarus group has stolen roughly 300 MILLION dollars via these attacks.
@@XenoTravisessentially what he means is that getting hacked by north Korea is the worst possible way to get hacked
North Korea: Mutah, I JUST PULLED YOUR IP!!!!!
Mutah: Oh, Okay.
I was hoping Muta would launch everything at once, creating a battle royale of malware. Personally, my money would have been on BonziBuddy winning it all.
I feel like this video should be 3 hours long, love hearing Muta explain anything tech related
mfw you think Muta does anything tech except install arch lol
I hope this becomes an ongoing series. This was amazing
I love watching these videos, I feel dumber and dumber each minute that goes by, it's like listening to a magician try to explain a magic trick but the magician is actually magic.
Basically it's just billions of 1s and 0s per second.
@@mikeycrackson Theres 1 agreeing here.
There is no magic. You have a chip in your pc or smartphone called processor. This processor understands the most simplistic instructions like addition, subtraction, dividing, multiplication and can compare 2 values and tell if they are equal or not. There are maybe 50 of such instructions more your computer knows of like understanding that an value with an point in it is a floating number etc but thats it. The only magical about this is the physics of electricity and how it makes your pc execute this instruction in milliseconds.
I wonder if malware can spread on your home wifi/network/router. So just connecting an infected device could spread it to other stuff.
basically black backgroud and white/green text = BIG BAD
Just before you said it was a virus investigation with the hard drive you said you were getting from vx (friends of mine as well) I was genuinely so shocked muta got the big NK bullseye! Love these - coming from a red-teamer!
It was reassuring to see you startled by the onset of the virus around 20:37.
I remember the first bug that took over my PC as a kid and it was an absolute trip. I thought there was a human behind it actively trying to get something, so I "fought back" against the pop-ups by using a key-bind on my keyboard to spam the screen with calculators, thinking I could turn the tables on the onslaught of pop-ups. xD
I love watching Mutas computer related videos and acting like I know what he’s talking about
It's OK he doesn't know either
@@Shmack_ I'd rather watch him than some boring nerd that does know what he is talking about
I'm surprised muta didn't use the NordVPN sponsor after getting hacked, it's a signature piece of what makes SOG....SOG
Me too
@@HentaiJesus69 EXACTLY!!! I was waiting for the sponsor drop in the video 😂
Even Muta's sacrificial laptop is 3 years newer than the laptop I'm currently using.
(real)
WE NEED A PART 2 THIS IS SO FASCINATING
it's called live overflow or any actually intelligent channel
Time to go disconnect my Chasity belt from the internet.
Legit, unless you know exactly what the malware does, you should remove (not just disable) the wifi card. There are malwares (plenty of them) that will re-enable and scan networks.
I still have samples on floppies from 3.1 and 95 days...
I came here to say exactly this.
Muta's "Airgapped" system wasn't truly air gapped per say if he didn't physically remove the wifi card from the system.
The risk of it scanning a network, decrypting the key and accessing said network is pretty minimal, but I guess it does exist. Anyone doing this sort of thing with an unprotected network deserves all the crypto locking they get.
@krazed0451 sure but when you just paid 500 bucks for a selection of TBs of spicy malware why take the risk.
@@krazed0451Its the fact of depending on your area there are open networks in some businesses so people can use net well they are there not anything with a key. If you want to learn at least think of possible risk of deploying by accident and what your playing with.
@@JinglePeeny Considering he said he was going to enable wifi to download a program to unzip 7zip, I HIGHLY doubt he took the card out.
Hey muta your channel has became the main I watch, your knowledge, and your research is something I truly trust and it’s rare for me to trust any media I watch, you’ve educated me for the last 2 years consistently, and I’m honored to be in your fan base, made a fan art of you and Turkey Tom a while back, you two are my main news sources as I trust you two more then anyone else on the platform, you guys have an amazingly solid reputation, and you specifically, admit when you’re wrong and correct misinformation, it’s honorable
"knowledge and research" LOL
North Korea found Mutahar’s secret folder
His femboy folder
ah shit the homework folder just leaked
I highly agree not to deploy ransomware, good way to catch a case with the Feds
The way you filmed it, totally added to the atmosphere and was way in line with how i imagine hacking 😊
"system is still doing something in the background"
That's not malware, Muta. That's just Windows 10.
That was interesting, wasn't ready for the "trippy" malware bit though, almost had a seizure at my desk. Damn it's crazy you can pick this all up on one drive n view all that. And it's entertaining how much you chuckle about all this.
That blue screen woke me up. Great work muta!
Mutahar really thought he could let one rip 20:09
😂😂😂😂😂😂
These are the type videos I like to see from the channel.
I have a CD full of viruses samples from a technical magazine of the nineties. I remember exploring it in a VM years later, on an isolated outdated PC without (physical) network connection. It has from almost very light and just annoying stuff, to hardware breaking stuff and all in between. Very interesting stuff. I think that there is stuff there that could even cause problems in today's systems...
Drink every time I say "stuff". 😅
Hopefully we get more of this content, been waiting so long for more computer related videos 😭
Same here lol
My grandpa told me that my grandma gets a lot of ransomware on her computer. His solution is to log out of her user account, log in to a different administrator account, and delete the ransomware. He said it always works and he hasn't had any further issues... I don't understand.
User accounts (i.e. without Admin priviledges) themselves don't have the authority (privilege) or ability to actually change important OS/system stuff that Viruses need to infect a system. This is one of the most basic and fundamental forms of protection used in businesses and large enterprises. That said, decent Malware has methods to bypass privilege controls and 'escalate' privileges to silently do whatever it wants without the user knowing. She's inadvertently following one of the best security practices but, again, a lot of malware out there can still infect the system from the user level and is virtually impossible to detect with the vast majority of Malware these days invisibly stealing all personal data saved on the system and sending it to a server to eventually be used to steal identities and money in any way possible.
Ransomware is old news with RATs (remote access) being the far scarier and more dangerous threat. I'd bet money that she's opening bad emails which is a huge problem for the older generations. I'd also bet that the system is actually infected with data stealing malware which presents no signs/warnings like Ransomware.
Thanks!
Going for my cyber security degree, looking into the analytics side of things (pen testing looks so insane). I have no idea why these kinds of known malwares are not discussed further in an educational setting. Obviously, no emulating this, but even the legal case around it isn't touched on nearly enough.
there are youtubers with actually chops that break down these viruses along with papers written by all the big anti virus companies and researchers.
there's more discussion provided further in educational setting than you'll ever have time to read and comprehend, idk what you mean t
corpos take cyber security as a joke, that's why they get breached so often.
This video took me back to getting ransomware on my PC as a kid lmao. I was like "jokes on you I don't care about my files, I'm just going to wipe my computer" and I did exactly that. Got everything back to normal and then I attached the USB drive I had in my computer at the time. Ransomed all over again 💀 Super annoying but I also thought it was really cool that somebody could even do that. I still have the USB drive like 13 years later, I never used it after so presumably the malware is still there lol. Shoutout to vx-underground
Somehow, nearly a decade of limewire and pirating games as a kid, I never got any ransomware lol.
I probably had 75% of the malware in existence at the time though lmao
You should buy a super cheap burner latop and plug it in lol
Ransomware scares the crap out of me but watching you go through them is just fun to watch.
25:38 Oh yeah, and the Captain Murasa one! Amazing Touhou malware.
Next video: I got called by Kim Jong Un at 3am (not a prank)!
I love being informed by something i have no idea, like different malware and what are the effects of said malware. Thanks muta for the informative video
3:05 I agree 100% I would never do anything like this because I am not tech savvy like Muta for some reason I enjoy watching videos about it even though I don't understand it kind of wish I was a little bit smarter but what can I do just sit back and enjoy
12:29 smart also I hope you do make more videos about this little big hard drive
So happy you're supporting VX so much!
Muta is truly a guy who could actually play a Chaotic Neutral Character in DnD
Muta getting scared by the ransomware was so funny I would’ve shit my pants if that happened to me
When I screamed at you to use a flash drive you actually listened it's kind of like an interactive video
The Muta bingo card just gets better every upload.
Hacked by North Korea.
Damn the video possibilities with this are pretty endless. Can’t wait to see what you put out.
i wish for a pc destruction with Muta and Joel
Muta, I’m totalling 27 chicks in 2023, I’m trying to hit 30 before New Years but I’m in Aus so only have 3 days left, and to make things worse hanging out with one of the 27 tonight, so I’m getting some tier 1 A+ Sloppy toppy but it’s not adding numbers to my tally!! So really, I only have the 30th & 31st to bed 3 chicks. I dunno man, feeling the pressure… I’ll keep you posted brother ❤
Video starts 1:16 you're welcome.
Hey thanks!! I just ordered one!! I'm gonna learn how to make ransomware like you said. Thanks for the tip. I'll be ransoming people in no time, thanks to you! Great topic! You're a great source for the ransom community.
If you think about it, what muta did is the electronic equivalent of a hobby chemist like Nile Red Casually ordering a sample kit of all the world deadliest diseases and their variants for the past 20 years for funsies. Love it, This is solid pen-testing porn.
13:49 bro that was a jump scare, my pc is running into frequent bluscreens nowadays and this caught me off guard.
You know shit's about to get REAL when a VM doesn't cut it for Muta.
glad to see some Danooct1 love. I've been watching you two since I was in middle school. I remember Danooct1 doing a ben drowned creepypasta virus that totally scared the shit out of me.
This has been the best video to wake up to
Muta embracing the chaos. always a treat
Btw when disabling windows virus protection it's better to do it via powershell or registry rather than the gui, this is because windows will re enable the protection on its own after some time and destroy all your work/analysis/samples which would suck if it wipes your entire 500$ drive
I’d love to see more episodes or just videos of deeper looks into some of the viruses or just more stuff on the drive
when Mutahar got jumpscared that had me dying 😂😂😂😅
12:56 ah yes a very OUTDATED PC running the late 2021 21H2 Windows 10 version with an i7-7th gen and 16gb ram and probably a 1060 is now considered very OUTDATED
I don't mind using your personal computer for whatever experiment you want but calling it outdated when it can probably run the upcoming GTA 6 at 720p is such a fkin Understatement
This reminds me of how dumb I was as a Habbo script kiddie purposely downloading scripting tools that hacked me every time and I never learned my lesson because I kept downloading them.
This was one of your best videos. So good.
Also I’m pretty sure Muta’s laptop he destroyed is nicer than the one I just bought for like $400 lmao
@20:40 here I thought Muta/his editor legitimately censored a naughty gamer word or something with the dial tone beep from the computer.
@21:00 Same, Muta. Same.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this feels like watching someone filet and eat pufferfish right in front of you
Solid ass vid there,my man. 👍
I appreciate Muta's dedication to putting his own hardware at risk for our edutainment. Even if it is an old laptop that has outlived it's usefulness.
How much malware you want?
Muta: yes
Also that computer you ran malware on is better than my computer…..
who is must
@@DeltaReviews420 meant to say muta it auto corrected
@@iPhone3GS_68 who is must
Did your laptop have a WiFi card installed? If so, could malware be able to detect a disabled WiFi card and attempt to connect to nearby WiFi networks?
he removed all the drivers from the system. So even if it did detect the wifi card, it couldnt use it unless it somehow supplied its own.
Yea, until the malware has it's own drivers...
I worked in an antivirus company in the late 90s early 2000s when virus alerts were a thing and we had to stay late to get the signature and documentation out.
Love your content muta ❤
Exploring The Dark Drive era of Muta has begun and I’m locked in
Love to see you take a look at cybersecurity stuff again , your older videos legit inspired me to take up a career in CS
Thanks for taking one for the team
So I actually use Brilliant, and Muta is right when he says it is the best method to learn Data Science and math. Also, 3blue1brown's linear algebra playlist OP.
Banger muta, just now taking my Google cybersecurity beginner cert flying through it since I’ve been following you and Kenny for a while, thanks for all the good you do in the world brother much love from the Midwest USA 💯❤️
I remember getting the WinCIH.32 virus on my Windows 98 machine in 1998 or 1999 not 100%. It was my 1st PC and my 1st experience with a virus, I caught it in time before it hit my BIOS. Lost a lot of files if i recall right, but it was the CD-rom generation so I had the originals that came with the store bought PC. The late 90's early 2000's were a nightmare for viruses because Microsoft were assholes when it came to computer security, hence the rise of Norton, McAfee ect anti virus software. Not heard of the WinCIH virus in a long time bad memories for sure.
I got a usb notification the exact moment Muta plugged in the drive... I think he's trying to hack my system y'all... 😨
lmao
Always love these episodes. Really excited to see what Muta goes for in the future. I'm really excited in the eletric and so forth grid malware and stuff like it.
Great Video! Thank you!
That’s hype a North Korean vs some internet 🛜Indian guy 🇮🇳
"I'm a stupid person, but if it's one thing I'm smart at it's my computer stuff"
~ Muta 2023
Title goes harder then jirard losing his career
Fascinating video and a little trip down memory lane. Thank you ❤
Bro is fighting his own war
You buy a drive full of binaries because you cannot underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the interstate.
I could not stop screaming at him to remove the usb as soon as he started extracting malware.
29:24 I don't know if this is correct or if im completely stupid but I remember that the German government either discussed or approved the use of a Staatstrojaner (roughly translated State Trojan) that is supposed to be used for this exact purpose
Surprised the drive didn't come read only, they should do that ideally if they can
Write-protected (i.e. Read-only) drives are just a false sense of security since it's only a software setting that any half decent malware can change like any other user or admin setting. Basically only physical write-once discs like CD/DVD-R and similar are actually safe from malware injection.
@@Demoralized88 It can be done at hardware I think
10:40 What is actually real is transmission through powerlines. Outlets, powerboxes, meters, etc. Archaic but I am surprised it really isn't happening AT ALL.
P.S. That whole thing you were talking about reminds me of Phreaking lol! R.I.P. Analog phone systems...
Also also, There are exploits with Bluetooth and WiFi. To fully isolate it would be best practice to completely remove any wireless hardware connected to the machine.
Disconnecting Hardware > Disabling Software
Nice to see danoct getting a mention. Great channel
Agreed, one of the best creators this site has ever had.
Hey does someone has access to this archive?