A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.
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Unfortunately, IP addresses are often MORE traceable on decentralized networks then centralized networks. How so? Lets say Alice and Bob each use their own PCs as nodes on a decentralized messaging network. None of them use a VPN or proxy. If Alice sends Bob a message directly, Bob can just grab her IP since she is using her own PC as a node. However, if they were using a centralized service, that message would’ve been routed through the service’s servers.
This is not new. It’s literally always been like this.
Lol I love how behind the times academics can be. This literally was a big thing used to ddos streamers back in the day like 2010s-2015s. All that needed to happen was they accepted a call and since Skypes peer to peer the hacker instantly got their IP. I remember Destiny being targeted for a while by it.
People still use Skype?
People still use Skype?
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When Skype was still in common use, this was a very known issue. I’m in lots of gaming communities, and you had to be careful about who knew your username because you could have your IP exposed then get DDoS.
Possibly they patched it and this is a new instance of this, but it was like this for years and years before.
Me who hasn’t used Skype in like 15 years: Oh no
Always on VPN is a good idea, or a VPN just for apps you don’t trust (like skype). https://github.com/Safing/portmaster is a nice visual firewall configurator that can do things like, this app, must use the firewall. (easy to configure split firewall)
Is this even news? Literally an exploit as old as time.
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I remember my friends and I doing this in 2008. This really is super old
If you connect to anything on the internet, you’re giving out your IP address. Why would this be any more of a concern?
Because this can happen without you connecting to any suspicious server.
At this point Microsoft is a suspicious server, and any data they could get from this they could just like… pay for from one of our overlords
Users may consent to giving Microsoft their IP address but not to everyone who sends them a link
Pretty sure this was already known. Just even back when Skype was relevant it wasn’t fixed.
Is anyone still using Skype? Or is this a danger just to the last 10 people using it?
The attack could pose a serious risk to activists, political dissidents, journalists, those targeted by cybercriminals, and many more people.
Lmao like they’re using Skype when trying to hide
Have to be honest, I thought Skype was discontinued years ago.
It was but we forgot to tell our grandparents, and Microsoft
somehow Emperor Skype returned
no matter how many times you say no it keeps coming back, same with Edge
i did too. i’m genuinely not sure why it exists. microsoft is making teams into its favorite productivity app, and i can’t think of anything skype has that teams doesn’t. why does skype still exist?
Because it sucks quite a bit less than Teams. I know I’ll be sad to see it go when companies eventually switch to Teams. They’re already running side by side in most places now while companies are migrating so it’s only a matter of time. Microsoft will probably announce end of life sometime this year.
Skype basically bridged the time it took Microsoft to come up with their own conferencing solution so now that Teams is here to stay they can take Skype out back and shoot it.
that makes a lot of sense. it is quite hard to make an app worse than teams, and it seems like the more time microsoft spends on their productivity apps the worse they get (ie word, which was pretty much finished in 2004). i haven’t used skype since finding out about mumble around 2013, but can definitely see why it might be nice to have an office meeting app that is (relatively) free from microsoft’s meddling.
Isn’t today’s Skype just camouflaged Teams?
It’s possible it uses the same infrastructure in the background, but the interface is a lot simpler. It’s just on-on-one conversations and group conversations period. The equivalent in Teams would be the “Chat” tab – if it didn’t have all the added complexity that comes from Teams being so deeply integrated with the Microsoft online office suite (email, calendar, teams, sharepoint, onedrive and a billion other apps).
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Ohh no, someone on the Internet might have my IP address! The horror! What if they try to ping me?!
What if they leave an anonymous tip that you’re distributing CSAM?
With just an IP? Then the system is broken. Because an IP is often easy to get, and everything that directly connects to you needs your IP, unless you use a VPN I guess.
Every website knows your IP. Every internet application knows your IP. Everyone in a peer-to-to-peer network knows your IP. It’s not a secret, it’s just your internet address. It is designed to be known.
Yk I was on the others side of this til this comment, like I was gonna say there’s a difference between corporations and malicious individual actors, but nowadays I’d trust some random individual 1000x before a company.
God I hope veilied becomes popular
People used to use this attack in League of Legends a decade ago. If they’re losing, they guess someone might have Skype open; and moreover, that their Skype is the same as their summoner name. Then they get an ip address and ddos the entire lobby, causing the game to crash (I think it happened in one of my games maybe once, but I didn’t really play ranked other than team ranked).
Also, since all pro & semipro players had each other added, this was possible to do at any time during online tournaments (which was most tournaments - TSM invitational etc). So there were always rules that ddossing was disallowed. But it did happen.
Known ddossers were more hated in the community than known flamers, but a few people who did it “reformed” and went on to be pro players anyway.
Because nobody cares. At all. The only people who might are streamers and over zealous nerds.
Even an overzealous nerd would understand knowing an IP address is pretty much worthless.
You underestimate how much privacy advocates bitch over the dumbest shit ensuring that nobody ever actually listens when it’s important.
This is soo old that’s how they would ddos clan leaders and shot callers back in the acheage days
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