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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In general, a compromised system may be running any software the attacker might find useful, including, but not limited to:

  • keyloggers to find passwords that are in use in the company
  • software to copy sensitive files to a remote server
  • software to encrypt the system itself or (if the computer has access to other machines on the network) other computers
  • produce documents (think, mail) that purport to have been created by the user of the corrupted machine.