r/CyberSecurityAdvice

Hello, I am conducting academic research on phishing-based attacks and cryptocurrency wallet security.

I am currently collecting responses for this study and would greatly appreciate your participation.

The questionnaire is anonymous, takes approximately 3–5 minutes, and all responses will be used strictly for academic purposes only.

Your input will contribute to research aimed at improving cybersecurity awareness and reducing phishing risks in cryptocurrency environments.

Thank you for your time and support.

Hey guys, I’m a bit worried about this. I did something stupid and ran the code in this website I found in Google. It was an advertisement. I was trying to make an old external HDD read but it didn’t work so I googled it and found this curl code. I’m not well aware of programming and terminologies but this was the link:

https://macsupp-usb.gitlab.io/macsupp-usb/?gad\_source=1&gad\_campaignid=23765961086&gclid=CjwKCAjw14zPBhAuEiwAP3-Eb\_wOdc51mzGTTB0KreYVvy3KF6EovNwkKzjm-6KoJuCW8gnbg5tWchoCe64QAvD\_BwE#

Can someone please help me? It ran something and then asked me for password of my account on a Mac window box. I didn’t put in my password. What should I do? Was the command safe? Am I at risk? Should I be worried? Please help me

I accidentally fat fingered a reply on a tweet, which took me to a website I instantly closed out. Then my phone asked if the website could access my camera, photos, and contacts. I obviously said no to all of them, and changed my main passwords.

I saw another post of a user that had the same issue a few days ago, and it didn’t seem like anyone had anything come up from it. I just want to make sure no one has had that issue, and had anything come out of it.

Thank you!

We’ve gotten two of the accounts taken down by reporting them directly to X but another one popped up and she’s afraid it’s never going to stop. Is there any true permanent way to stop this from happening in the future?

I'd love for someone to want to take on a mentee, I want to be more tech savvy and aware of what's going on. I feel like as a father of 3 boys, I want to be educated enough to be able to teach them correctly online safety, VPNs, privacy ecosystems etc, maybe some coding as well?

At the moment, personally I've migrated everything over to the Proton Ecosystem (Mail, VPN, Calendar, Meet)

But I feel like I'm just touching the tip of the surface on what I should be learning, educating myself.

Anyone up for a challenge of teaching a 34 year old, knackered Dad of 3 some tips and tricks, seriously open to learning anything and everything.

I have been asked to do a presentation to a PTA group. They are looking to understand what parents can do to keep their children safe online. I have a lot of material to work with and have several drafts. I am asking my Reddit brethren, if there’s anything that might be uncommon, I should include. How would you advise parents to keep their children safe online. And yes, I have already noted that don’t let them online is a strong option.

Just trying to look for some good ad blockers, antivirus software, vpns and more. I’m also on a budget here, so I appreciate some economic options.

I need honest advice regarding cybersecurity career in India.

I completed 12th in commerce stream and didn’t give CET, so I don’t have option for CSE/BTech easily. My realistic option is BCA.

My girlfriend completed 12th science, and her father says she should do Engineering in CSE because it has more market value in India for cybersecurity jobs.

We both are interested in cybersecurity. I know skills matter a lot in this field, but I want real advice:

If I choose BCA, will I be at a disadvantage in jobs compared to CSE/BTech students?

Will salary growth be lower because of BCA degree?

Can a skilled BCA student compete equally in cybersecurity?

Is BCA better because it gives more free time to self-learn certs/labs/projects?

In India specifically, what would you recommend for long-term growth?

Need practical advice, not degree pride answers.

Okay, so basically, someone logged into her account. Then logged into her chatgpt account, then went through her chats, selected the ones which had a lot of sensitive stuff innit.

They then downloaded it as a pdf, and shared it with other friends. And now one of her friends who I think is the one who did it is kinda threatening to leak even more??

Idk, theres a lot of drama thats involved here but what I do know is that this friend of mine, logged into her account in a college lab computer, most prolly forgot to logout and then this xyz person used that opportunity.

Now, she's terrified what might happen. What to do in situation?? I've already told her to change the passwords and activate 2FA

Ya, IK she made a lot of blunders, the first being sharing sensitive info on chatgpt, but well, I'm gonna talk about that later with her.

ps, this is india, so if anyone knows whom to approach and stuff pls do let me know

ALSO, idk if this is the right sub for that. If its not then im really sorry and id be very grateful if someone could just point the sub that could help me out here

For context, I’m 35M. Worked as a software QA for almost 12 years with 5 years in automation testing. Jobless for about a year now due to retrenchment. I just think QA is no longer for me and the current job market now for this role is pretty bad, at least in my country. Ever since I’m really interested in hacking though haven’t got a chance to learn it deeply. I explore wireshark, packet sniffing etc. but really didn’t have a proper learning path. I’m familiar with linux and ubuntu is my main desktop for about a year now. I just think this is an exciting role and really want to enter the industry. Now I just started the TryHackMe Cybersecurity 101 course and started looking at Jeremy’s IT lab CCNA course on YouTube.

Is this doable for me?

How difficult is it for me to switch to this role?

What is the current job market look like?

Any advice for learning path, materials?

Are certifications helpful for this role?

Thanks. I might have some grammar error as English is not my native language. 😁

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I'm still pretty fresh in the field, and my "SOC" is just a title, it's only me monitoring and remediating. Soooo they want me to work the booth at a K12 career fair. If you guys were going into the field, what would you want to know? Or wish someone had told you? Obviously, there's not a nice way to say "don't fuckin do it, the fields' oversaturated and the market is ass", yknow??

im starting to get a bit concerned right now and im looking for someone to help me understand why this is happening and how i can stop it.

if this means anything, i recently upgraded ny iphone13pro to an iphone16plus. im mentioning this because i never experienced this on any of my previous devices.

my instagram got hacked earlier this week and i caught it THE MINUTE they mass sent an elon crypto casino image. i changed my password, added 2FA, assumed that was that. checked all my other accounts (twitter, discord, tiktok) everything looked fine. i did not receive any emails about a suspicious login on this account but i have been receiving emails nonstop on people from different locations (brazil, egypt, cambodia) attempting to hack my OLDD instagram account that i no longer have access to.

what is also strange and kinda funny is that someone attempted hacking my ANIMAL JAM account on sunday… i dont know if this is linked but weird timing as this is all happening.

today i logged onto twitter and someone mass posted more crypto stuff. no suspicious login emails once again. changed my password, added the security i could but now im a bit concerned and i need advice on how to stop this for good if possible.

i also want to mention i did not click any dm links! this situation has come out of nowhere and is beginning to scare me.

So i have a course in college where we develop and web app and deploy it in our college provided VMs and we are supposed to attack and find bugs/vulnerabilities in each others project. I don't have any hands on experience trying to find vulnerabilities and I only have 2 days to find them. Can you suggest some tools or LLM agents(i have used gemini(pro) which doesn't give direct steps and chatgpt(Go) which is used less and claude which is very good but only have a free plan so can only chat for 1p min and the limit is reached)I could use.

Thank you in advance

I used an Archer AX10 wifi router for a while, after reading some news, it had the affected firmware version reported to be a security concern. I’ve since ditched the router, but feel anxious my devices, or accounts could be in danger. Is this an actual real world issue from just using that router, with default settings?

For the past month, my internet has randomly gone down at random times and acted extremely suspicious. The connection will drop...then when I try to access a normal website, it redirects to "This connection is not secure, does not support HTTPS" warning. Eventually, I just reset the modem and the connection fixes itself...or sometimes I just wait about 5 minutes and the connection comes back.

I have had 4 separate Spectrum technicians out (and even a field specialist due to the nonstop issues). Got a new EVERYTHING. New box at the pole. New box outside house. New wiring inside and out. Brand new router and modem. New WIFI address and passcode.

For the past week, I assumed it was finally fixed. Then, girlfriend turned on her PC and something strange happened again. Her wifi indicator showed an "X" like it wasn't connected yet it was still running a download.

A couple of minutes later...the issue came back all over again! Entire connection dropped on all devices and then came back online.

Strangely enough, when I went on google to test my connection, some of the results were in Russian language...which makes me extra suspicious about there being some sort of backdoor on my connection.

Ran malwarebytes and found nothing.

Another weird incident, I was connected to wifi on my phone, and my phone suddenly showed 5G connection instead. When I tried to reconnect, it asked me for my wifi password again...even though I have already saved the password to auto-connect.

Hello, I am currently 28 with zero experience and want to start my career in IT to pursue cybersecurity once I find my best fit in the industry. After working in call centers for 9 years with time ticking I believe I found my career path based off general research and interests, Personally I feel like I'm starting off very late and need any type of guidance or assistance to help me begin my journey as I look online there are so many paths to take to start cybersecurity. I currently wfh as a scheduling service and have plenty of time to do studying/courses but currently struggling financially check to check and it mentally is deteriorating knowing I can't use any income to help take college/online courses to help me jumpstart my career. I appreciate any support or guidance that can be given during these hard times and I thank you in advance for helping me get my life together finding a way to start what I should have done years ago.

TLDR : I am currently 28 with zero experience and want to start my career in IT, struggling financially need any support or guidance to help me start my journey

Someone, not necessarily the same person has logged into various of my accounts across platforms first it was discord and then epic games then steam and today X (Twitter) and as you can probably tell I don't have a single clue about cybersecurity and Tbh I click links without a second thought coz it never happened to me and I've recovered the X and Epic games account but I think I might have gotten some kind of malware on my phone or my laptop, Is there anything I can do to regain access and remove malwares ???

Good Morning Everyone,

We currently pay for Mimecast email gateway and recently got checkpoint wrapped in with a different service we're using.

Anyone run them at the same time? If so any massive issues or loops created between the services?

Thanks!

So I have an older Samsung TV, it’s a smart tv but doesn’t have Apple airplay support or Bluetooth because of its age but I know from years ago that Samsung phones are compatible with it.

I was sitting here watching tv when a prompt came up on the top of the tv saying a Galaxy S26 Ultra phone wants to connect and asking if I want to allow the connection (which I denied). That model phone has only been on the market for about a month so I know it can’t be some old phantom notification. I keep the TV’s internet connection turned off on my modem because I use the cable box for everything so I know the TV has nothing more than inter-lan access of my home network and it’s my understanding to cast to these older TV’s, especially one without Bluetooth, the device trying to cast has to be on the same network as the TV but I’ve never gotten a notification saying an S26 Ultra connected to my network.

I’m not in an apartment building or anything. There was no one within close physical proximity to the TV except for me.

Anyone have any idea how I got this request on my TV?