After Scammers Hijack Man’s Phone Number, Angry Calls Come Twice a Minute. Dear ABC News Fixer: Scam artists have hijacked my phone number. They are spoofing my name and home phone number on people’s caller ID when they make calls. This has resulted in hundreds and hundreds of incoming calls to my landline from their angry victims. I put a voice mail message on my phone trying to explain, but for days now, as soon as the first person hangs up someone else is calling – all wanting to know who I am and why I called them, though I never did call them. Some are threatening, making me worry about my family’s safety.

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We cannot use our phone for incoming calls that could be from loved ones in an emergency. I have contacted the local police and the Federal Communications Commission. Both said there’s nothing they can do. Brent Lacy, Amarillo, Texas. Dear Brent: Thanks for opening a window into the other side of these telemarketing scams.

We usually hear from the victims who lose money to these scam artists. You are the other victim – the guy whose number was used to trick people into thinking the caller was coming from Texas (and not whatever overseas location they were probably calling from). When we spoke with you in mid- January, you were getting up to two calls a minute, beginning about 7: 3. You got hundreds and hundreds of calls a day – all from very angry people accusing you of running a scam. The scammers were pretending to be from a state agency, often in Wisconsin, saying that the consumer owed a debt. In this type of scam, the bad guys typically operate in some unknown locale and get their victims to pay them funds through a prepaid money card or wire transfer.

Using special calling technology, they are able to make a false phone number – yours – appear on the caller ID of their victims. The calls got so bad, you moved your phone to another room, turned down the volume on the ringer and covered it with a blanket. We reached out to your phone company, the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission to try to get you some relief. In the end, you decided to just shut down your landline number - - the same number you’ve had since for 3. You also filed a complaint with the FCC in hopes of giving information that will eventually bust the scammers.

Even then, the hassle continued with some of the angry consumers tracking down your mother’s number and calling her, apparently thinking her son was a scam artist. The FTC is pushing for telephone companies to allow the use of new call- blocking technology, recognizing that many of these scam calls come from overseas where U. S. law enforcement can’t reach them.

The FTC also is trying to push industry groups to make spoofing more difficult. As for people like you, whose telephone identities are stolen and used by the scammers, here’s some advice. Look into third- party Vo. IP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) carriers that might offer the ability to allow only certain numbers to go through to your home phone. Wait it out. Caller ID spoofers usually move on to a new number eventually, for fear of their calls being traced back to them, says Bikram Bandy, coordinator of the FTC’s Do Not Call program. Change or disconnect your number. It stinks to lose your number, especially if you’ve had it for a long time, but in extreme cases this may be the best solution.

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RDP hijacking — how to hijack RDS and Remote. App sessions transparently to move through an…Alexander Korznikov demonstrates using Sticky Keys and tscon to access an administrator RDP session — without even logging into the server. Brief background on RDP session connection. If you’ve used Remote Desktop Services before, or Terminal Services if you’re as old as me, you will know there’s a feature where you connect to another user’s session — if you know their password. Watch London Boulevard Online Hoyts.

Did you know you can also hijack a session without the user password? Read on. You can right click a user in Task Manager, use tsadmin. It will ask for a password, and bomb if you can’t authenticate as the user: Some tricks allow credential- less Session Hijacking. From A House On Willow Street Online Putlocker. Here’s the deal. As revealed by by Benjamin Delpy (of Mimikatz) in 2. Alexander Korznikov on Friday, if you run tscon. SYSTEM user, you can connect to any session without a password. It doesn’t prompt, it just connects you to the user’s desktop.

I believe this is due to the way session shadowing was implemented in Microsoft Windows, and it runs throughout the years like this. Now, you might be saying ‘If you’re SYSTEM, you’re already root… You can already do anything’. Yes. Yes you can. You could, for example, dump out the server memory and get user passwords.

That’s a long process compared to just running tscon. This isn’t about SYSTEM — this is about what you can do with it very quickly, and quietly.

Attackers aren’t interested in playing, they’re interested in what they can do with techniques. This is a very valid technique. So, you have full blown RDP session hijacking, with a single command. Some parameters about how far this reaches. You can connect to disconnected sessions. So if somebody logged out 3 days ago, you can just connect straight to their session and start using it. It unlocks locked sessions.

So if a user is away from their desk, you steal their session AND it unlocks the ‘workstation’ without needing any credentials. It works for the physical console. So you can hijack the screen remotely.

It also unlocks the physical console, too. You can connect to ANY session — so if, for example, it’s the Helpdesk, you can connect to it without any authentication. If it’s a Domain Admin, you’re in. Because of the above point (you can connect to disconnected sessions), this makes it an incredibly simple way to laterally move through a network. You can use win. 32k SYSTEM exploits — there are many — to gain SYSTEM permissions, and then use this feature.

Meaning even as a standard user, if patches aren’t applied properly you can use this. Obviously, any route to SYSTEM is valid — e. There are no external tools. Nothing to get through application whitelisting. No executable is written to disk.

Unless you know what to monitor (more on that later), you won’t know this is happening. It works remotely. You can take over sessions on remote computers, even if you’re not logged into that server. Gaining SYSTEM for tscon. If you’re an administrator, you can use a service as Alexander demonstrates: In essence it is really easy, just use the quser command to get the Session ID you want to hijack, and your own SESSIONNAME. Then run tscon with the Session ID for hijack, and your own SESSIONNAME. Your own Session will be replaced with the hijacked session.

The service will run as SYSTEM by default — you’re in. Just remember to delete the service afterwards, if you’re evil. Here’s an example of it in practice on a Windows Server 2. R2 server: https: //www.

Ogso. Io. Wmh. Ww. Other methods: You can use Scheduled Tasks to gain SYSTEM and run the command. Just schedule the command to run immediately as SYSTEM with interactive privileges. Use can use a variety of methods like Sticky Keys to get SYSTEM, without even needing to log in (in the future).

See below. Exploits etc (see above). Lateral movement. Most organisations allow Remote Desktop through their internal network, because it’s 2.

Windows administration works. Also, Remote. App uses RDP.

Because of this, it’s a fantastic way to move around an organisation’s network — forget passwords, just surf around and abuse other people’s access. You appear in the organisation logs as that user, not yourself. How to backdoor for credential- less hijacking.

Remote Desktop bruteforcing is a major problem. Anybody who has setup a honeypot recently will know within seconds you will be getting hit with failed RDP logins. First they portscan, then thousands of login attempts arrive. It gets worse — I run RDP honeypots, and I see them regularly — when breached they get backdoored using the techniques below. From research, over 1 in 2. Remote Desktop servers online are already backdoored using these methods.

This means that you can session hijack with them right now, without even needing to try to log in or authenticate in any way. That’s bad. Consider Shodan shows there are millions of RDP servers online right now, and the number grows constantly with cloud services etc, this is going to generate… issues. RDP backdoor method one — Sticky Keys. The concept here is pretty simple — Windows supports a feature called Sticky Keys, which is an Accessibility feature built into the OS and available pre- logon (at the login screen, either via a physical console or via Remote Desktop).

It runs as SYSTEM. If you set Sethc.

Sticky Keys) to spawn cmd. SYSTEM access, so you can do anything even without an account. You can do this by either replacing sethc. REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current. Version\Image File Execution Options\sethc.

REG_SZ /v Debugger /d “C: \windows\system. Ta- da! The box is now permanently backdoored. Just Remote Desktop in and at the login screen, hit F5 a bunch of times. Method two — Utilman. It’s exactly the same as before, just trojan utilman.

At the login screen, press Windows Key+U, and you get a cmd. SYSTEM. REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current. Version\Image File Execution Options\utilman.

REG_SZ /v Debugger /d “C: \windows\system. Scanning for backdoor’d RDP servers. There is a prebuilt tool here, which works wonders — just spin it up and find servers which already have a SYSTEM level backdoor exposed: From online scanning, a significant amount of open RDP servers online are already backdoored.

Mimikatz module. There is now a Mimikatz module for very easily doing this: gentilkiwi rocking it. Mitigations. OS- I had a section about Window Server 2.

After testing this applies to every OS since Windows 2. Windows 1. 0 and 2.

Group Policy — I strongly recommend you use Group Policy to log off disconnected sessions, either immediately or soon after the user disconnects. This will NOT be popular in IT environments — but the risk is now completely real that they can very easily — with one built in command — be hijacked more or less silently in the real world. I would also log off idle sessions. Don’t expose RDS/RDP to the internet — if you do, I strongly suggest you implement multi- factor authentication.

You can use things like Microsoft RD Gateway or Azure Multi- Factor Authentication Server to get very low cost multi- factor authentication. If you’re exposing RDP directly to the internet and somebody creates a local user or your domain users have easy to guess or reused credentials, things will go downhill fast.

Trust me — I’ve seen hospitals and others be ransomware’d by RDS servers. Monitoring. It is surprisingly very difficult to record session hijacking — there is one event log (Microsoft- Windows- Terminal. Services- Local. Session.