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ROOTKIT ON MY MAC BOOK PRO / mac book air AND MY IPHONE

Hi


i have possibly a rootkit on my devices


i cant use my devices correctly



so i need to know how to flash all the firmwares manually


???

MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.4)

Posted on May 22, 2018 9:16 AM

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May 22, 2018 9:36 AM in response to macjack

stealth malware mean it is like a windows rootkit


you cant see it from the high sierra os and you cant boot from another system because it is a smart piece of malware


it can do everything on your system


remotely the rootkit owner can modificate anything in memory / policy right / erasing files / cut of internet / overheating your cpu / even kill litteraly your battery

May 22, 2018 9:45 AM in response to HACKEDMACBOOKISNOTFUN

Again, it is possible to have a rootkit on a Mac. It is not possible to have a rootkit on an iPhone unless that iPhone has been jailbroken.


The way the operating system is built for an iOS device prevents anything from being installed in secure system areas, which rootkits require. Unless someone had physical access to your iPhone, there is no conceivable way someone jailbroke your iPhone and installed a rootkit. It simply cannot happen on an iPhone because of the way the OS works. It is sandboxed. That means no regular App has direct access to system files or folders in any way. So no way for a rootkit to get installed if it cannot access the folders it needs.


So again, explain exactly what issues you are having, and why you think a rootkit has been installed on any of your devices. What is happening exactly.

May 22, 2018 10:32 AM in response to HACKEDMACBOOKISNOTFUN

is your iPhone jailbroken? If so it's possible and you need to factory reset.

is your iPhone not jailbroken? then there is no way to install a rootkit. If your apps are coming from a 3rd party then they only place you could get them is from the App store - and since the tools do not exist for devs to write malware then your rootkit suspicions are highly misinformed.

May 22, 2018 11:12 AM in response to Phil0124

did you read about hackingteam ios hack?


it is possible to unlock an iphone without noticing it via your lightning cable when you plug your iphone on a computer


silently....


your iphone can be on even if your iphone is apparently turned off


the screen is off ONLY


not the phone


you can even access a smartphone via siri ... via the mic


you can inject data in a smartphone via the accelerometer






https://www.networkworld.com/article/3183529/security/acoustic-attack-lets-hacke rs-control-smartphone-sensor.html


YOU CAN HACK ANYTHING VIA ANY WAYS


BUT its not something that anyone can do


but a security team a state or a private company can do that easily

May 22, 2018 11:18 AM in response to HACKEDMACBOOKISNOTFUN

HACKEDMACBOOKISNOTFUN wrote:



YOU CAN HACK ANYTHING VIA ANY WAYS


BUT its not something that anyone can do


but a security team a state or a private company can do that easily

The acoustic attack in the link you referenced does not appear to have been used on an iPhone. That article is more than a year old. In that year, I have seen zero (none, not a single one) references to an iPhone being hacked in that way. Just because you find an article about something on the internet doesn't mean you're in danger.


So let's back up. Start by telling us what is appears to be wrong with your devices. For now, let's not talk about why. Just explain what you're seeing (e.g. slowness, crashes, etc) that seem wrong to you.

May 22, 2018 11:56 AM in response to HACKEDMACBOOKISNOTFUN

HACKEDMACBOOKISNOTFUN wrote:


you need a baseband firewall to protect your radio processor from the outside world


you can see under that you can hack silently an iphone



https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.fr/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-f i_4.html

Please, stop with the links. Explain what you're seeing on your devices that makes you think you have a problem.

May 22, 2018 12:06 PM in response to HACKEDMACBOOKISNOTFUN

ok sorry


i reply to your answer with delays


so


my iphone take 2 minutes to 30 sec to start randomly ( to me ) without any reason


an update take a very long time to do the job and my cpu is overheating too


but when i was using a radio frequency detector i saw that my iphone was transmitting when it was supposed to be off

with the lcd screen off....


my apps are crashing when i use specific apps to check what processes are running in my back....


so these apps are launching but without showing the menu of the specific processes.... they appears on the other smartphones but not one mine....


a vpn works only 10 seconds.... so my connections are filtered in real time .... deep pack inspection....


when i use LTE or wifi i have the same problem


my LTE is throttling or jammed


i'm kicked from the gsm antenna when i try to log again to the antenna it works few seconds then kick out again .....


i'm connected to a mobile phone antenna (not mine / imsi catcher) and my battery is draining my cpu is overheating


my research on the apple store are modificated / they are not the same from another hotspot


my sms are coming with delays or not coming at all



its not because you cant see that on internet that its not possible to put a malicious code inside a firmware gpu inside an iphone motherboard


if you can access one iphone you can take over all of them ......; because same os same hardware same apps ........


associate the fact that you can take over a lte 3G 2G wifi spoofing the dns a mitm fake applestore fake apps a vulnerability on the wifi chip lte chip a malicious evil lightning cable attack ...


ps: back in the day i remember it was possible and freely available to jailbreak an iphone with just a click on a website......just a click...

ROOTKIT ON MY MAC BOOK PRO / mac book air AND MY IPHONE

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