How to not get hacked: real example

[itenthusiast]

Thanks a ton. I have seen many videos like these but this one helped me up my knowledge by large also I was glued for the entire 13mins. It has all a user needs to know. More important complicated things explained in an easy way. I liked the crowd sec mention

[Homelander-ftw]

And this is why Windows shouldn't hide file extensions by default.

[jvdg_hanna]

Actually that website was a legit Korean website, and the kakao email adress domain is like a South Korean gmail, it's the standard there. When a regular person has that it's nothing to worry about, but when a company uses that in their official email instead of a company domain it's definitely something that should set off some alarm bells.

[Nickwilde]

In case anyone's curious why Screensaver files are executables: they're not videos, they're programs that run in real time on your pc

[RobotsWithKnivesCartoons]

I've made some pretty suboptimal PDFs in my time, but 600+ mb for a PDF would be a huge warning bell for me.

[Alberos]

As many people pointed out already, that's Korean not Japanese. Here's a quick way to tell CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters apart for all English speaker out there. A) If it has lots of circle, it's Korean. B) If it has lots of line and square and the character looks "blocky" and "complicate", that's Chinese. C) If it's not of the first two and it has lots of curvy character mixed in with some square and line, that's Japanese. The Chinese and Japanese is a bit tricky because Japanese do mix character from Chinese (Kanji) in their language. However, the Japanese character will standout from the Chinese one, they will look less "blocky" and "less complicated" and has lots of curve line. Hope you learn something new!

[Gazzz]

I've been having the exact same email myself (amongst many similar others), I swiftly block and delete.. another great informative video. keep these up )

[Bellicosy]

I was already aware of this information partially in thanks to your channel, but it is always good to be reminded in order to stay sharp of real and ominous threats that are just a single click and slip of the mind away.

[omgabaddon]

Thank you for the video. I already knew about all this but still stuck because you go straight to the point and don't waste the viewer's time, unlike those videos where there's a 4-minute intro asking you in 15 different ways whether you were hacked before.

[businesscatlimbo]

I love this channel. As someone starting my bachelors in cybersecurity I love learning about this.

[featurebreaker]

I love your videos, TPSC! Keep them up!

[cinna]

Ah yes.. I love opening screensaver files.

[toddsimone]

So let me get this straight. The hackers decided to try and scam a youtube channel by the name "The PC Security Channel" and thought you were an easy target. I'd be offended!!

[st.clairjrharris]

Thank a million 👍🏻. As someone currently studying cyber security. This video is actually helpful.

[jondo]

From the privacy perspective it's nice to see that Google has problems with scanning big files. Also using a pdf icon as an icon for an executable is very smart I never thought about how easy that could be done (probably because I never made actual maleware, If I would would have to think about the icon at some point).

[manprinsen]

Would be nice with a antivirus comparison of the 658MB file. E.g. how does kapersky, eset etc handle the file when it’s downloaded and also when it is executed.

[TediousSecurity]

These are some awesome tips for someone that hasn't seen a piece of malware that mimics a pdf. I did an incident response scenario for the first time and kept seeing that MZ on the malicious files and sad to say I didn't know that about pexe files but I knew it was malicious.

[Vandelay]

Love the channel, thank you for all the knowledge

[zild]

instructions unclear, i hacked the hacker instead

[nicolaecalin]

Your voice is so calming I fell asleep to it and missed a day in my Duolingo streak