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Re: KeePass hacked...on Windows
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2015, 07:46:37 PM »
 

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@MarkZ correct. And you only need port 22 open on a server to be open to a ssh attack. Point is, a vulnerability is still an attack vector. Close all the doors, stop the attack.
 

Re: KeePass hacked...on Windows
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2015, 07:04:04 PM »
 

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From my understanding, the KeePass program must be open and logged into your keepass db (i.e. db must be decrypted)..then you are at risk.
 

Re: KeePass hacked...on Windows
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2015, 06:45:18 PM »
 

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The way I understand this, the attack works only when the database is open or something, right?

From the KeePass developer:

"KeeFarce is not a threat (and the developer of it apparently knows that, as he nowhere declares it as threat or attack).

This tool extracts information of a running KeePass process (with an open database) using a rather complicated method (using DLL injection). There are much simpler ways to achieve that. For example, a tool could send simulated keypresses to the KeePass window to export the data to a file (e.g. press Alt+F, E, Tab, Space, ...). Before that, a screenshot could be created and displayed above all windows in order to hide this procedure (and a user probably would not notice a screen freeze of one second).

Like others wrote before, the actual problem is running specialized malware. If you're doing this, everything's over; software cannot protect itself in such a case. I wrote about this before:
http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html#secspecattacks"

So... nothing new. Or does the attacker need only the database file?
Your passwords cannot be safe if you catch some kind of malware, KeeFarce or not.

You could simply catch a keylogger and get your passwords compromised.
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KeePass hacked...on Windows
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Thought your favorite password manager was safe to use on Windows? Think again.

https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/password-manager-hacked.html
 

 

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