Malware and infostealers
Software that steals your data or takes control of a device.
4 people have shared their stories about this.
What to do
Practical steps, in plain language.
It happened to them too
Written by people who went through it, in their own words.
One dodgy download and someone was in my accounts by morning
“I’ll just come out and say it: I’m an idiot. I downloaded a file I knew was dodgy, and the internet gods punished me…”
I pirated a game and my PC started opening PowerShell on its own
“Last week I tried to download a pirated game. Shortly after, my Discord account got hacked but I caught it immediately.…”
A game mod from Discord turned my PC into a spam machine
“This one still messes with me because it started with something that felt harmless. I joined a random Discord server…”
Ransomware locked our clinic out of every patient chart
“I am a doctor for a non-profit clinic. I remember sitting in my office at 3AM in the morning not knowing what to do…”
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