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VSeeBox: reverse engineered (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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...and this is why

pihole ain't enough
you dont buy skeezy shit off aliexpress
if your pirate box isn't self hosted, it's a prostitute :P

Honestly.... I'm kind of impressed at the level of fuckery that vSeeBox goes into. This is not just a random crypto mining bot... someone with real skills went to a fair bit of trouble to obfuscate things.

Impressive. Most impressive.

PS: don't buy vSeeBox - or do, with eyes wide open.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That's pretty wild man. Reminds me of a while ago, a lot of people got busted locally for selling loaded Kodi boxes at the flea market. I bought one out of mild curiosity from a greasy individual who I could tell wasn't the front man of the operation. Anyway, I booted it an ran wireguard against it. I don't have the skill this guy does in the video, but what I did see were a lot....a lot..of sketchy Chinese ip addresses. So, i shut it down and it resides in the junk bin.

I found this interesting: https://safereddit.com/r/vSeeBox/comments/1hhibu0/vseebox_for_real/

Particularly this comment:

u/Fun-Device-9702
Apr 14 '25

I got a couple strange emails that were definably spam after hooking one up, so I wonder if there some kind of back door program working on these.