From: akiki@free.fr
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 18:25:01 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <331531811.-1550186875.1589214301322.JavaMail.root@zimbra76-e14.priv.proxad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1325932087.-1622514822.1587585031094.JavaMail.root@zimbra76-e14.priv.proxad.net>
Hi,
On doing an habitual "cygcheck -rs", I was interrogated and ALARMED to see some register keys speaking cygwin :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\
microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\cygwin.com
(default) = 0x00000000
NumberOfSubdomains = 0x00000001
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\
microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\EdpDomStorage\cygwin.com
(default) = 0x00000000
NumberOfSubdomains = 0x00000000
Examining the registry under cygwin:
cd /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/... ;
Positioned on Internet Explorer\,
I found 4 sub-keys : DOMStorage DomStorageState EdpDomStorage Main
These keys are very populated :
"ls -lR|wc -l" give me 1285 lines, and I can read many traces of my use of internet about bank vpn ...
For DOMStorage an EdpDomStorage a list of URL is indicated with dates between July 2019 and Apr 2020
The values attached to cygwin.com URL as for others are 4 bytes values - no clear meaning.
To conclude, Microsoft spy and register all sites you access, cygwin.com in particular.
I hope only with Edge, but I am not sure of that.
I have never see in cygcheck, such reference to cygwin with chrome, firefox , opera ...
May be something is done to mask them.
Sorry for my bad English.
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