Watch This Russian Hacker Break Into Our Computer In Minutes | CNBC

Mikhail Sosonkin, who works for cybersecurity start-up Synack, showed CNBC firsthand how easy it is to break into a computer.

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Watch This Russian Hacker Break Into Our Computer In Minutes | CNBC

[unFamous_o.O]

This kind of hacking will works for a guy who just download anything pops up.

[tonyblack]

Being Russian makes the hacking twice as dangerous.

[scallywag]

Basically to "get hacked in minutes" you just have to do the things you never would. Makes total sense actually.

[Arek_R.]

"Breaks into our computer"
Yes but the victim has to first login to random network and fall for multiple red flags lol

[ugxtd]

Plot twist: The hacking software has never been removed.

[abhigyanshrivastava]

Woman : does everything hacker says
Woman : OMG! I'm hacked!

[perjuryoffendermeghanmarkl]

He sounds so happy:"so glad to have the opportunity to hack your machine." His happy voice just raised tone. He got so much joy just to hack a "machine"

[WhoopDePoopDeScoop]

Proof hacking is 100% exploiting human stupidity

[faktamerapu]

This is fake. He was not punching random keys and said "we are in!"

[chrswlf]

He protecc

He attacc

But most importantly

He open her calculator app

[AZTechLabs]

Love how he doesn't tell anyone to disable remote scripting.

[novocaine]

Wow, that os update looked so legit. You'd deserve it if you feel for that tbh...

[theshubhamaditya]

Hacker : Russian
Interviewer : Indian
Company : American
Hotel : Trivago

[aj]

"A website you normally use like Yelp"
Yeah right

[mmacity]

She's on Apple the most secure device out there and will send out multiple pop ups before your device is compromised like demonstrated in the video, the only reason he was able to access her device is because she wanted it to be hacked.

[imma]

This is an incredibly simple man in the middle attack. You could teach a 14 year old nerd to do this in a span of 1hr max. Very impressive lmao
Edit: as someone (correctly) pointed out in the replies, this comment isn’t entirely fair. These attacks are easy to execute *if* you use prewritten scripts & tools. Doing it all yourself is a different story. Overall, I’m glad they published this story. The public needs to be aware of this stuff b/c it will only become more and more important as time goes on

[alphabee]

She's probably worried late in the night if it's still accessible 😂

[JohnSmith-lwmq]

Lol, hacks that were popular 15 years ago, good reporting CNBC

[quin]

Me after watching this: covering my camera at all times

[connormccartney]

'Hacker' proceeds to just inject a rat into an application and distribute it