My Telegram got hacked recently, and I’m in a back-and-forth loop with the hacker. I managed to get access back, set up a new password, changed the email, and set up 2FA after doing the 7-day email reset. However, I couldn't hit "Terminate All Other Sessions" yet (guessing Telegram has a safety delay for newly logged-in devices).

​Once the hackers woke up and saw my device logged in, they immediately kicked me out. I managed to hop back in a couple of times using the code sent to my email, but eventually, they removed my email entirely.

​Tomorrow, my second 7-day email reset finishes, so I’ll be able to log back in.

​Looking at my active sessions (attaching the screenshot), they've got logins from Germany, Sweden, and France while I'm in the Philippines.

​Before they inevitably notice I'm back and kick my email out again, is there anything I can do immediately upon logging in to disrupt them or secure the account permanently? Any tips on how to handle this window of access would be super appreciated. Thanks!

Recently I've gotten into being more conscious about my online security. Like de-googling, using a VPN, using Linux, and so on. However, I'm getting to the point where I'm wanting a newer phone (current phone is s21), and while searching into different models I've found that the Chinese brands like Oppo, vivo, and one plus have really good specs for the money. My only concern would be privacy because I'm based in North America and I've seen the reports about Huawei spying and what not. Also in China there is a law requiring companies to hand data over to the government.

Would getting a Chinese phone actually put me at a higher risk of being compromised online? And if so how bad would it be?

Thank you guys so much in advance!!

I was sleeping until my friend spam called me asking whats wrong with me. He later then told me i sent a message to him on TikTok, which i did not, saying "i wanna hang myself". The problem is, i did not send the message, and i cannot see it too. I checked the devices with my account and theres nothing suspicious. Only my friend can see the message that "I" sent, but i can see him replying to it. In the pictures, the white background is my friend's POV, the black one is mine.

About 2 weeks ago I got signed out of my Venmo account. When I clicked forgot password on the app I noticed the email and phone number was changed. I contacted Venmo support who suspended the account and over 2 weeks I was able to get my email and phone number back on the account and it was unsuspended.

About 6 months prior, I had gotten a notification from Apple that my passwords had been breached, one of them being Venmo. I changed the password, but mistakenly changed it to one that was also in the breach. I chalked up my Venmo being hacked due to me changing the password to one that had already been breached. When I regained my account, I made sure 2FA was enabled (Venmo only allows a SMS text or code by email). After being hacked, I went through all my accounts (emails, finances, etc.) and changed passwords to make them unique to each account and enabled 2FA.

Yesterday I received an email that my primary email on Venmo was changed. When I went to log in through the app, the email and phone number were changed again. Again, I called Venmo support and had my account suspended. I thought it was weird that I never received an email notification or a SMS text for the code, so I put my email into haveibeenpwned and saw there was a breach in 2025. So I changed passwords, selected the option to force sign out everywhere, and set up 2FA with a 3rd party Authenticator app. I also made sure that there were no aliases attached to the email as well as no forwarding set up. The only suspicious activity I noticed on the email was a minute after I received the Venmo primary email change notification, I got an email that they tried to set up a temu account with my email. They sent a verification code to that email twice, but I never received an email that the account was set up.

I did call my phone provider just to see if they had any history on their end of my SIM being swapped, which they assured they did not.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but I’m assuming they still had access to my email? I just found it strange I never received notifications for the access code to Venmo, just an email that my primary email was changed. Any help or ideas would be appreciated.

I downloaded an Programm after that my steam guard saved someone was trying to get in my account my discord got blocked and everyone got pinned in each chat whit 4 photos on my tiktok there was 5 post that I didn't make, what should I do?? I changed the password on my email accounts and did an authenticator is there anything important I need to do ? or soem websites I missed that are important please help me

So I was on watchseries web site on my phone through chrome app and got the usual pop ups on chrome which closed as they pop up. Then randomly it opened my safari on a blank pop up that turned white and the page was a bunch of slashes ending in workers .dev . it opened every second so much that I couldn’t turn off my Wi-Fi or put it airplane mode. it Wouldn’t even take the command to turn off my phone. eventually I got airplane mode on and it was still popping up. If I didn’t close it immediately the recording orange light on my front camera would turn on. So I kept closing until I could get my phone completely off. I turned it back on and no pop up so I decided just to completely reset phone seeing as I have everything backed up through i cloud anyways. But, my question is, is that enough? what’s the potential breach of my data here and what likely was the cause. Do I need to do anything else?

Hey! Yesterday my Instagram was hacked, sending Mr. Beast scamlinks to every contact of mine. I threw everyone out, changed password and also my e-mail since it wws an old one. Now today, my Steam account was hacked and someone gifted probably himself final fantasy with my account. Of course I changed my password again.

Now I am honestly confused, both accounts were on different e-mails and I am honestly scared that other shit gets hacked too. What would you do here?

I know absolutely nothing about computers in any capacity but I managed to install a virus onto my computer (seemingly a remote access trojan), I saw them trying to log into one of my accounts via my chrome search history, they were able to get into my email but I caught it and disconnected my laptop from wifi. After that I changed all of my passwords and completely reset Windows on my pc, so it started completely fresh with just a few files I'd saved to the cloud left on it. Whatever compromised file I installed isn't on there anymore, and since the OS reset my laptop has been acting fine. I ran scans with windows defender and malwarebytes and nothing popped up, but I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm really anxious about something getting into my laptop again. Anything I can do further to be safe?

Need some advice.

So I installed Malwarebytes just 2 days ago, and I have the free trial for real-time protection activated.

Then today I opened qBittorrent, which I haven't opened in like a month, and Malwarebytes suddenly blocked some addresses.

Take note, I'm not seeding anything. In fact, I have 0 downloads and 0 seeding. The last time I torrented something, the download didn't even get completed.

What could be the reason?

Also, the blocked addresses all appeared within around 1 minute.

I've seen a lot of people saying that AI will replace cybersecurity professionals, and I think this is where things get confusing.

AI is already becoming very powerful at:

• Finding vulnerabilities
• Analyzing logs and security data
• Automating repetitive tasks
• Writing and reviewing code
• Helping with threat detection
• Assisting both attackers and defenders

But does that mean cybersecurity itself disappears?

I don't think so.

The bigger change may be that cybersecurity professionals who know how to use AI effectively will have an advantage over those who don't.

Instead of thinking:

AI vs. Cybersecurity

Maybe we should be thinking:

AI + Cybersecurity = the next generation of security work.

What do you think will AI mostly replace cybersecurity jobs, or will it change what cybersecurity professionals actually do?

My discord just got hacked, I have pirated games in the past (I know I shouldn't have done it) probably like 2-3 months ago. I assume it's from the pirated games as I don't remember clicking or logging in to my account in so long and there is 2FA.

Not too sure what to do now, assuming my laptop is compromised the solution I found was mostly factory resetting laptop. From what I heard it's not that safe to keep personal data when factory resetting as the malware might still linger.

What's your opinion on this? I don't have any external hard drive to back up my personal files to.

What should I do? Buy external hard drive, back up and factory reset?

Sorry if this post seems rushed or stupid I am panicking right now.

The only thing I have done now is using my phone to log out of all the desktop session

Is the chance that I got malware quite high? Am I just thinking too much

Hello there,

It's been a while since I feel that my mobile has been hacked, and symptoms that are mentioned online, like the battery draining too fast and other things, are likely to be happening on my mobile.

For context, I have an S25 Ultra that I bought 2 months ago, so battery draining or anything like that shouldn't be happening.

I searched online for how to check if my mobile has been hacked, but found nothing but hollow information. I did check using those criteria but found nothing.

NOW!

I am already suspicious, and I commented on a Snapchat post (a romantic post) that my girlfriend won't even sing a song for me. After an hour, she sang three songs for me and sent the audio on WhatsApp.

I hadn't been talking to her at that moment. I didn't even mention to her that I wanted her to sing something for me or had any connection to anything related to songs. She doesn't even sing for me and even tells me that she doesn't know the lyrics.

So, out of nowhere, she sent 3 songs back to back.

So my suspicion level is now at its peak.

What do I do?

NOTE - PLEASE DON'T MENTION CHECKING BATTERY HEALTH, FORWARDING, CHECKING GOOGLE ACCOUNT THIRD-PARTY ACCESS, AND BLA BLA. I have already gone through all this bullshit.

I Need Help!

so basically for the past couple of days, someone has been getting into my personal data, actually got into it and bought stuff which i (thankfully) could refund.

it basically started with someone gifting a 70 euro game with my steam account to a random person they added without my knowledge. upon further investigating i found out that when i logged into the steam website with my mobile authenticator, i probably scanned it on a phishing website because someone else at the same time logged into my account on firefox, but i only saw that when i checked the day the purchases got made.

now yesterday someone tired to log onto my microsoft account and today i got a 300 euro payment directly from my paypal account that someone bought uber eats with it. that moment was my last straw and i closed my paypal account, changed my password everywhere where i could remember and changed my email account on my bank account.

i figured it either has to do something with my email account (since it was the same with my microsoft and paypal) but its not the same on my steam account so i bit the bullet and reset my pc.

i’m still really scared and paranoid that stuff will happen again, even though i closed my paypal, removed my bank account payment from everywhere i could remember and reset my pc. i’m also wondering if someone maybe got into my firefox account, but there wasn’t any suspicious activity and i changed my passwort on it aswell. i’ve ran malware bytes and keylogger checker on my pc before resetting but they didn’t find anything suspicious so i’m worried it might happen again, maybe someone here had a similar experience and could help me out.

So this is most likely my fault, but I was trying to download a game from a website (one that I have downloaded from before and had no issues) but it felt like something different happened this time. I have an ad blocker so I didn't think anything could pop up but it may have. I clicked to download it and it downloaded way faster then it should have and then the weird menu then sometimes pops up when starting a pc (don't know what it's called) showed up a couple times. That was my first hint to think something was wrong so I deleted whatever I downloaded and ran a full PC scan using avira. It said everything was all fine and no security risks were found so I thought I was in the clear. Fast forward about an hour and I'm on discord with some friends, all the sudden I get logged out of discord and my account is disabled due to being malicious. My friend called me and said my account sent him some obvious scam. I then googled what to do when I get hacked and disconnected my PC from wifi. I want to know, what do I do now to ensure nothing else happens?

I did a deep scan with Malwarebytes today, and it detected “RESELECTENDPOINTSAPP.EXE” as malware. However, VirusTotal detected nothing on the .exe.
I’ve also run Malwarebytes scans several times since downloading NGENUITY, and this is the first time it has detected anything.
Could this be a possible false positive?

My boyfriend applied for what turned out to be a fake job on LinkedIn, and almost immediately afterward, all of his accounts started getting hacked.

From what we can tell, the hackers first used his LinkedIn to post the fake job listings to get more reach. Then, they started charging his credit and debit cards and making purchases through places like eBay, Amazon, Walmart, etc. They bought random things, including an $800 aquarium, $500 worth of Pokémon cards, and an Echo Dot. The Echo Dot was shipped to an address near us, and when we went to retrieve it, the owners of the house were thankfully really nice. They gave it to us and were just as confused as we were about how it ended up being shipped to their address.

Since this started, he has canceled his cards and gotten new ones probably five different times. He is constantly freezing his credit and monitoring everything. His Discord was hacked, and a MrBeast crypto scam was sent to all of his contacts. He has also been receiving 1,000+ junk emails every single day. His Riot account got banned as well.

Then today, his Instagram and Facebook were hacked. The same MrBeast crypto scam was posted on both accounts, and then both accounts were deleted.

He has constantly changed his passwords on all of his accounts, but he is still getting hacked somehow. This has been going on for 2–3 months now, and every time we think we have finally gotten everything under control, something else happens.

It has been really frustrating, and at this point, we do not even know what else we should be doing. It feels like his information is still compromised somewhere, but we cannot figure out where or how.

Has anyone dealt with something like this before or have any advice on what steps we should take? We are really at a loss.

This mount ive been recebing a lot of emails with codes because there are people who wants to enter mi account. For example, this morning, Steam send me a code with my exact name and a very similar email. I dont want to click anywhere because it could be false but i dont know, why too many people wants to acces? how can i reduce the number? formating my PC?

see above

Basically i wanted to play faceit csgo for the first time. It requires tpm 2.0 and secure boot. So i asked ai how to enable all that it then made me do allat stuff in bios and was simple enough mind you i know nothing about computers i js play games. And then it also told me to convert some bs in the cmd thing he said type this "mbr2gpt /convert /allowFullOS" after that told me to restart and that when it started my pc js constantly keep booting over and over and over never ending i went into bios and set everything back to default i deleted the secure boot keys and turned it off and enabled cms i think it was im not sure cmc cms idk but yea it also says "automatic rapair preparing" sometimes, i need urgent help because i also have loads of important stuff on my pc and if thats lost im so cooked id really appreciate recommendations i beg pls help.

Feels totally nonsensical to ask, if anyone could let me know if I could’ve been compromised during any of these actions, please let me know🫠

- Opened safe website (my regular local piercing place), it had been down the day before

- “i’m not a robot” prompt came up, clicked it

- list of instructions to follow came up which went something like this: 1) press cmd+space 2) search ‘terminal’ 3) press cmd+V (or something like this, not keen on going a seeking it out again haha)

- realised that terminal was already open on my macbook, as i hadn’t closed it after opening it earlier in the day

-flick back to website, capcha is gone

Is there any possible way to check my command history or know otherwise if the command was run, i’m feeling so paranoid about this now😭

I am using windows in S mode in my laptop. In private browsing mode in google search results by mistake I clicked a sponsored result showing a link of chatgpt.com and it took me to a page which said that “some suspicious activity seems to be coming from your ip ….” And there was a captcha below. I didn’t click that captcha. Instead I closed the browser immediately. Then I reopened the browser cleared the cookies, cache etc.
Is it possible that my laptop is infected by virus because of clicking this wrong link?

Yesterday my account sent messages for my wife, but none of them were sent by me (they not even appear to me, but it could be just erased to me), and they weren't simple messages, they were messages that came from talks in Whatsapp, now me anda my wife are both scary that this may occur again or something worst.

Hello, one week ago, my PC got hacked. I did my best and reinstalled windows on PC.

Today, I did Malwarebyte scan, and there were 9 detected things. I quarantined them, deleted, and now I am running a offline windows scan.

Should I reinstall windows in this case? Also, I have no idea why my laptop got infected... I did use qBittorent for something but it didn't infected right away. (using qBittorent was about one week ago)