I\'m worried about camfecting (webcam hacking). The camera light on my mac (runn

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I'm worried about camfecting (webcam hacking). The camera light on my mac (running OSX) is not on, but it isn't hard wired so that doesn't say a lot.

I've ran a virus scan but no signs. Now my idea was to watch outbound traffic in activity monitor. If there is live streaming (most likely when camfecting is occuring?) the outgoing traffic can't be under 1 kB/s right? Or will such traffic be invisible for the total data traffic in activity monitor?

Any advise from experienced persons is very wellcome, thanks in advance!

Explanation / Answer

Perhaps the best and only way to determine if your webcam is transmitting images without your knowledge would be to use a network monitoring tool to actually inspect the traffic packets themselves.

Just because your outgoing traffic is 1kB/s doesnt mean images are not still being sent -just slowly or broken up.

You best bet would be to install something like wireshark on a computer that is connected to your network but not the suspected infected computer.

Check this out for more info on tools and incident response.

You may also be interested in router based firewalls.

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