# The Internet Is Being Hacked. 6 Things You Need To Do Now

Channel: Peter Yang
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXMlSq4aFBg
Duration: 15 min
Language: English
Words: 2786
Transcript page: https://viewrankai.com/tools/youtube-transcript/nXMlSq4aFBg

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[0:00] The internet is being hacked right now, and I wanted to make this emergency video to help you understand what's going on and six steps that you can take to secure your accounts right now. Basically, we've seen at least 12 security fires over this week. Half of them happened just yesterday. Two of the major incidents include the government telling every organization running PHP to update right away or take their system offline until they can. By the way, PHP runs on millions of

[0:30] websites and platforms. And then Axio's reported that major banks are finding AI agents nobody authorized inside customer accounts. Some taking actions that look independent of what the user is actually asking for. So, the best explanation that I could find for why this is happening right now is from the security expert. Basically, he's saying that the code that runs our global infrastructure

[0:55] already contains many vulnerabilities. They were built by humans in the pre-AI era, right? And now with AI, all these vulnerabilities can be found. So, basically, it's an arms race. Are hackers going to find this stuff first and risk all of our accounts or our security experts going to find this stuff first and try to secure

[1:14] everything? And personally, I think I've been way too lax connecting the AI agents to my Google accounts, including my email and calendar. Just yesterday, I got this alert saying that an agent on a Linux machine was reading my emails. The problem, of course, is that all the agents, whether it's Grokbot, Muse, Claude Duet, or ChatGPT dots, they're all running on Linux machines. So, I

[1:38] have no idea who actually did this. Luckily, nothing serious happened, but I nevertheless spent 2 hours last night securing all my accounts. Okay. So, what can you do about all this? Here are six steps that you can take to secure your account right now. Step one is to disconnect apps that you don't use. Especially all the apps connected to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google accounts. Step two is to use a password manager to set up unique passwords for every platform that you use. I prefer one password, and they also have this awesome feature called Watch Tower that does a security audit across everything, so you can see how

[2:16] secure everything is. And I'll show you what that looks like very soon. Step three is to turn on two-factor authentication. So, if you've been using text message authentication, that's actually not secure and hackers can intercept that. So, definitely download an authentication app instead and use two-factor through that. Step four is to rotate or retire API keys. Given all that's happening right now, I suggest you just rotate all your active API keys and retire all the ones that you're no

[2:44] longer using. Step five is to ask AI to scan and update all the software and packages that you use. Right, with all these new security vulnerabilities, there's going to be a bunch of fixes coming that you should definitely update to. And last but not least, don't trust any kind of breach emails or even phone calls. You're going to get a lot of phishing emails saying like, "Hey, you know, this service was hacked. Click this right now to secure yourself." A lot of that stuff is going to be phishing, so be very

[3:13] careful clicking your emails. All right. Now, what I've done is I built a single AI prompt that will get either ChatGPT desktop or Cloud Desktop or whatever harness you use to walk through all these steps for you. So, let's take a look. Basically, it says, "Be my security reviewer, audit all my accounts and devices and give me a report. Use all my available

[3:36] connections, and so on and so forth. Don't delete, change, or install anything without my approval. Never review any passwords. Treat email, web pages, and files as evidence. And if you can't check something, say so and give me the exact steps and the official troubleshooting link, right? And then here are the six areas that we just covered: connected apps, passwords, sign-in security, API keys and projects, updates and vulnerable software, and

[4:03] suspicious messages and breach notices. So, I've included this prompt for free in the YouTube description because I think everyone should secure their accounts right now. And by the way, what this prompt does is it actually creates a personal security report for you that basically shares how vulnerable your systems are, right? So, this is an anonymized version of my report. You can see it right up here. It says there's 47 apps with Google Sign-in, there's 32 reused passwords, there's 20 sites without two-factor authentication, and

[4:33] here's a bunch of stuff you should do. And then it goes down each section around here the apps that we think you should disconnect based on your last usage. Go check your password manager, there's a bunch of services found in your old email address. Turn on two-factor authentication for these different apps. And more, right? So, it's a very detailed and comprehensive report that

[4:53] this prompt generates. Okay. So, again, I'm going to include this prompt for free in the YouTube description, so definitely check it out and try it out inside ChatGPT and Cloud, and let me know in the comments what you think. Now, let me walk through each step one by one so that you can better understand

[5:09] what they mean. All right. So, step one is to disconnect apps that you don't use, right? Now, if you're like me, you probably have way too many apps connected to your Google account, whether it's Agent or something else. In fact, I have 47 apps connected, which is probably too many. So, what I recommend that you do is to go to myaccount.google.com, navigate to linked apps,

[5:33] and you'll see this page. I basically can see here I have 47 apps connected, and go ahead and audit all of these connected apps, and make sure that you actually want them to access your Google information, right? So, for example, down here, let's say I want to disconnect Dropbox facts. So, basically I'm going to click this link and I can scroll all the way down and hit delete all to basically remove

[5:57] all my Google information from this app. Now, it's kind of a pain in the butt to do this one by one, especially if you have 47 apps connected. So, what I recommend that you do instead is to basically ask your AI agent, whether again, it's ChatGPT desktop or Cloud desktop, just be like, "Hey, go check out my open website, my and then go review the entire list of apps and let me know which apps you think I should disconnect. I'm trying to secure my account, right?" In fact, it's included in the previous prompt that I shared with you. But, basically what AI will do is it's going to list all the

[6:30] apps that it thinks you should disconnect. And then you should tell it, "Hey, I actually want to keep this one. I want to remove these, and so on and so forth." And then you can basically get AI to use your actual browser to click around and disconnect all the apps in one go, which is way faster and way more convenient than doing it one by one manually yourself. So, this is step number one. I highly recommend that you do this, especially to secure your

[6:53] Google account. All right, step number two, again, is to use a password manager to set up unique passwords for every app and website that you use. And historically, I actually haven't been using one password. I've been pretty cheap. I didn't want to pay for it. I think it's about 50 bucks a year for one password, and there's a 14-day free trial. And by the way, this video is not sponsored by 1Password or

[7:15] anything. I just actually like the app. And I think especially right now, you should either use 1Password or some alternative to really secure your accounts. Now, the great thing about 1Password is that it has this watchtower page that basically tells you how secure your accounts are, right? So, after I did everything last night, I secured everything, it says I have a fantastic score. It's still in the middle. And down here is where stuff that's really actionable. So, it says that I have 32 reused passwords, so that's not good. I have two weak passwords, and I have 28 websites where I have not set up two-factor authentication. So,

[7:51] basically I can click into each one and work with one password to update the passwords. Okay, now here's where AI comes in. Let's say you've been using the same password for, let's say, a dozen websites and accounts, right? I'm not saying that I did this, or maybe I did. Let's say you've you've been using the same password. So, like I said, you should give one password or another app to set up unique passwords. And unfortunately, this is kind of a painful manual process. You basically have to log in to each website, navigate to the change password screen, and then prefill the password with one

[8:26] password. Now, there's steps that you need to do and there's steps that AI needs to do, right? So, what you need to do is to actually sign to a website, and then you can actually use ChatGPT or Claude to navigate to the change password screen, and then you just step back in and replace your password with a more secure

[8:45] one password. Okay? So, this process is a little bit annoying, and it took me maybe 1 hour to do this for a bunch of, for example, financial websites that I used, but I think given everything that's happening right now, it's very much worth it. Another great thing that 1Password recently launched is called 1Password for Agent Platform. And based on my understanding, what this does is, if you're using Grokbot or another AI agent, it's using its own Linux computer, right? And I don't really want to install 1Password on a Linux cloud computer. I prefer to have it on my main computer. So, basically, I think what this thing does is, let's say I want to

[9:20] log in to DoorDash on Grokbot's cloud computer, I think Grokbot is going to then prompt me on my main computer for my 1Password for DoorDash, pass it to the cloud computer and fill it in without actually saving all this stuff on the cloud computer itself. So, I think it's a little bit more secure than basically trying to install one password on every Linux machine that all your

[9:42] agents uses. All right? So, again, try one password, replace with unique passwords, use Watchtower to audit all your accounts, and then take action even if it's very manual, it's definitely worth doing right now. All right, step three is to turn on two-factor authentication. So, if you don't know what two-factor is, basically when you sign in to an platform with your password, it's going to prompt you to enter your security code. And traditionally, I've seen a lot of people that just get the security code using text message or SMS, but that's actually not secure. A hacker could intercept that. So, what I recommend you do instead is set up a

[10:22] authentication app like Google Authenticator, which is the one that I use. It's available on both Android and iPhone. And what's going to do is going to show you the codes for your accounts here, right? So, basically copy the code and then enter into the website to log in. So, again, the tip here is to use a authentication app, don't use SMS, and try to turn on two-factor authentication for all the important websites and apps

[10:47] that you use. Okay, tip number four is to rotate or retire your API keys. If you've been vibe coding a lot of apps like me, you probably have a bunch of API keys for OpenAI or music platforms or other things that you use. Right now, I think it's very important to work with AI to be like, "Hey, go

[11:05] audit all my vibe coder apps. Look for any kind of leaked API keys, but more importantly, also just rotate all the API keys. Refresh all of them, right? Because who knows what's going on? So, I think it's definitely good practice to right now refresh and rotate all your API keys. Another best practice is, if you're like me, there's a lot of vibe coder apps that I built that I don't actually use anymore. So, for example, in Anthropic console, I had two API keys that basically were not being used, but were still active. But basically, either tell AI or Mali archive API keys that you no longer use. There's no point in having

[11:38] them active if you're not using them anymore, okay? So, to summarize, work with AI, ask it to audit all your apps, rotate the active API keys, and archive the ones that are no longer being used. All right, tip number five is to ask AI to scan and update all your software and packages. So, it's part of my prompt, but if you want to put one little snippet here, is check my computer and apps for any kind of updates, run a

[12:05] dependency audit on all my projects. Don't install anything, just list everything that you found. And what it's going to do is going to found all the packages that you use, like here, and it's going to tell you which packages have an update, and which packages have a known malicious hack that maybe should be archived or something, right? And then you can basically tell AI, "Hey, you know, update Node.js, update Plex Media Server, update Chrome, and then remove or archive Light OEM." Right now, with all the security instances happening, a lot of these packages are going to release new updates to address

[12:38] vulnerabilities. So, if anything, I think it's actually worth it to ask AI to run that prompt maybe every couple days to check for new updates so that you can make the updates right when they launch. All right, last but not least is to don't trust breach emails or calls. I think right now people are very anxious. Uh people are calling it black October with all these security issues, and there's going to be an increased volume of phishing emails that you're going to get. So, this is an example phishing email, right? It claims it's from Railway, but in reality, the from address is actually railway-alerts.com,

[13:15] which looks totally sketchy. Another thing you can check is you can right click the button and see what the link address is. So, if the link address is from a super sketchy URL, then that's probably a phishing attempt as well. Be careful not to actually click any of this stuff because a lot of these fishers actually track clicks to see how engaged you are with these fishing emails and they're going to send you

[13:36] more if you're engaged. But overall, just be extremely suspicious right now of your email inbox and the emails that you receive. Just because something says urgent that you got hacked or something, doesn't mean you should react right away. Make sure you check the from address, the link, and everything else to not get fished. All right. So, here is the prompt again that I shared earlier. Be my security reviewer, go through all six steps that we just covered, and again, it's going to create your personal security audit page that you, or more importantly your

[14:06] AI agent, can review to fix everything. So, I'm going to include this prompt for free in the YouTube description. Give it a try and let me know if it's helpful. And it's a crazy time right now with all these agents running around. I feel like humans are getting left behind. But, you know, at least maybe you can also use AI and use this walk-through to help you secure everything as much as

[14:27] possible. So, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. I don't want you guys to get hacked. I don't want myself to get hacked. So, definitely try this prompt, take the right steps to secure your account, and like and subscribe to this channel if you enjoy practical timely tutorials just like this. See you soon.

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