Friday, 18 July 2014

MW How To - Signing in with Facebook

Introduction


Our product MW, requires users to login in with an email and password. If you have signed up to HackEx using a facebook account you will have assign a password to your account. It's quick and painless and should take less than a minute of your time. 

As an overview, we will be covering the following steps:
  1. Forgot Password 
  2. Send Request New Password Link
  3. Assign A New Password

Step1 - Forgot Password

What we will do first is head over to the login screen of the mobile app and look for the text that says "forgot password?".





Step2 - Request New Password

After clicking the "Forgot Password" link you will be presented with the Request New Password screen, as shown below. We will type our facebook email address in the provided text box and then proceed to tap the send button. This will tell Hackex to send a password reset link to your entered email address.





Step3 -Assign New Password

Huzzah! Last step. Simply login in to your email account and look for the "Password Reset" email from Hackex. In the email you will find a clickable link. Click this link and your browser will open a new page allowing you to reset your password.

Explained

When you sign up with facebook, HackEx gives your account a blank password. What we are doing, is asking HackEx to replace that blank password with a real one. This way, we can use our newly assigned password and facebook email to login with MW. Success.




Thursday, 26 June 2014

MW In a minute

Here is a quick introduction to MW to help you get started with your new tool.
In this introduction, we will cover 5 topics:


  1. Running the program
  2. Logging in to your hackex account
  3. The main menu
  4. Uploading spam
  5. Entering Your Serial


Running The Program

All versions of MW are made portable so there is no installation and very little hard drive space used. To start MW, simply navigate to your download, then double click your file to run the program. Expect to say a little black window, much like the console of the windows command prompt. MW will then spend some time loading.


Logging In To Your Hack Ex Account

After MW has loaded, press enter to skip the disclaimer. You will now be prompted to log in to your Hack Ex account. Follow the on screen instructions to enter your details and log in. You are required to log in so that MW can make requests for your account. When you are successfully logged in, you will be presented with a greeting and the main menu.




The Main Menu

This menu will vary slightly between different versions. It will however, work the same way accross all versions. A list of available options will be shown to you. Press the number associated with your desired option followed by the enter key to make your selection.



Uploading Spam

Select option 1 from the main menu to run the exploit. If you are running the free edition, it will start automatically with preset values. If you have either a premium key or a premium edition you will asked to set the upload limit and level of your spam. Once the process is started, MW will begin to list the usernames of your victims. MW will do this until it reaches the set upload limit. When MW finishes you will be presented with a report showing you how much your hourly BTC earnings will increase by, along with the estimated time of completion.



NOTE: Your Hourly Bitcoin earnings will not increase until the spam has finished uploading.

Entering Your Serial

If you have purchased a premium edition of MW you will be required to activate your product before using it. When MW starts up, you will be presented with a window asking for your serial. Enter the serial you were given in the box and click "Save" to continue. 





Saturday, 7 June 2014

Camping 101 - HackEx's Most Annoying Technique

There are very few times in life where it pays to be annoying. When it comes to camping however, being annoying isn't too bad. In fact, it often pays real well! In this guide you will learn about camping at it's bare basics, along with how and why it's used in HackEx. I have prepared a step by step process that you can use over and over again without fail. So read on, as I cover an introduction to "HackEx's Most Annoying Technique". (The game developer discusses it here)  

This guide assumes you have some familiarity with the HackEx gameplay.

Camping, In a Nutshell


Camping is a common gaming term amongst players in a PVP (player vs player) environment. I personally heard the term first used in the FPS named 'Counter Strike', and was later, surprised to learn how many games have their own slightly modified versions of the strategy. The idea of camping coud be simplified to: Finding a strategic place where you can wait and continuously take advantage of your enemies.

The basic idea of camping in HackEx doesn't really involve much 'strategic positioning', our position will actually be the IP of our targets virtual device. 


The Camping Template


Step1. Taking Notes

First things first. To make sure we are ready to start, we need something to write down, or note our target's ip address. You could use the in game notepad, pen and paper, or your head. Whatever you choose, have it easily available when you are 'going camping'.



Step2. Clear your enemies bank

The most important part of the camping process is probably clearing your targets bank. So I'm going to place it as the starting point. If you haven't already got a target in mind, head over to your in game scanner app and start bypassing some IPs. When you have your target, log in to their device and clear all the money in their 'checkings' account. Ideally, you will have a list of 'targets' which you can access one after the other. Continue to access your target devices, (the more the merrier) and clear their banks until they either stop earning money, or upgrade their device.



Step3. To camp, or not to camp?

To make the most out of your time, it is a good idea to be actively making decisions on how profitable your target is. That decision will almost always come down to these two question.

Ask yourself these questions:
  1.  "Is my target earning me as much as others I have access?
  2. "Are my levels high enough to bypass/ crack the upgraded app?
If your answer is no to any of the above questions, go ahead and remove them from your processes list for they probably aren't worth the effort. Don't give up too early though, sometimes you can use your spare *overclocks* to help you take on higher level apps. If you decide you want to camp your target for another round, carry on over to step 4. Otherwise, move on through your target list or find some new IPs to work with.



Step4. Pitching the Tent

This is the part where you become a huge nuisance. The developer purposely makes it hard to restart the bypassing or cracking process. To do this, you are required to delete the outdated process from your list of completed processes. Sadly, when you delete the process, your target's IP address is lost too.To get around this, we will use our super note taking ability to record our target's IP. 

  
Camping HackEx - Unable to access device "Uugh!"

If your target has upgraded their firewall. Remove the ip from your "bypassing processes" and head over to your scanner app. Type the ip address in the top bar, then tap the "Ping" button to check if your target is still at the same address. Simply tap on the result you get and start the bypass process all over again. 




Camping HackEx - Login Failed! "Uugh!"If your target has upgraded their password encryptor. Remove their ip from your "cracking processes" and then log back into their virtual device. Make your way to the bank screen and hit the "crack" button to start the process again.

As soon as you've got access to your target's account, head back to step 2 and repeat the process.



When to Camp

When going on hacking sprees, you will go through many different accounts. Most will have little to no money, but the good accounts will have a large sum of bitcoins, just waiting to be stolen. You will find however, that a handful of these 'good' accounts will be constantly earning a large amount of bitcoins. When you find one of these users, you can be assured that it is a good time to set up camp. They will always be accounts with a high reputation / score.



Why It's Good For You

Successfully camping just a handful of these 'good' accounts will carry you through upgrade after upgrade. They will save you hours of logging into low earning accounts. If your target is a good sport, you may even find yourself a well matched opponent.



Why It's Bad For Them

If you get ahead of them in upgrade levels, it can be very easy to put their progress to a complete stop. It is often best to save your overclock points for times like these. Spending your overclocks to speed up processes can help you launch a fast counter attack in the hope to claim back some bitcoins (or dignity).
Prevent this from happening by updating both your firewall and password encryptor regularly.



That's all folks!


I'd like to hear about your camping sprees. Longest camp sprees? Most memorable hate reply? Comment below.







Friday, 6 June 2014

Do you even spam? - Spam upload times and sizes


What follows is a very raw collection of information I am gathering on the spam application for HackEx. I created a brand new account and set it up to run some tests. All tests are done using the 1G network and without any other network processes running. 

Spam Upload Time Calculator

  • File Size: n/a
  • Upload Est: n/a


Table of spam sizes:

Upload Speed -> 50kbps


Spam LevelUpload Time (s)Size (kb) [Upload speed * Upload time]
1100 5000
2800 40000
32700135000
46400320000
512500625000
6216001080000
7343001715000
8512002560000
9729003645000 
101000005000000
1533750016875000
2080000040000000 -> 3645 GB

Formula for calculating upload time for 1G network:

uploadTime_n = 100 * n^3

AboutWhere 'n' is the level of spam you are trying to upload. Please note that this is to calculate ONLY the upload times for the 1G network.

Graph of upload time vs spam level:


This is a graph of the time (in hours) it takes to upload a spam at the specified level. 

Observerations

As you can see, the time taken to upload the spamware quickly goes out of proportion. This is because the size of the file increases at an exponential rate. The formula to calculate the size is listed below:

size_n = 5000 * n^3

AboutWhere 'n' = the level of spam you are trying to calculate the size for. The result is in kilobytes.

Table of the available networks and their speed difference



NetworkUpload Speed (kb)Difference in speed
1G50Default
1GS100+50
2G150+50
2GS200+50
3G400+200
3GS600+200
4G1600+1000
4GS2000+400
5G2800+800

Observations

This was interesting for me. As there is a rather radical increase of speed when upgrading to the 4G network. 

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

The Complete Cracking Guide - Basic Playing Styles

Overview

  • Offense: High
  • Defense: Low
  • Earnings: Medium
  • Work: High
  • Difficulty: Medium
This style focuses on breaking into user bank accounts. At low levels, the cracker has the highest earning potential of the three basic playing styles, but it also requires the most work. With a bit of effort (and luck) your will be earning more than other playing styles at your level.  



The Crackers Goal

Your goal is to find high earners to *camp* and steal bitcoins from. It may take 3 firewall bypasses, or it may take 20 to find a high earning account. The good thing is that while you are bypassing and cracking, you will be earning experience to level you up. Make sure to scavenge user apps and bank accounts for whatever you can steal to make it worth your time.



How to Camp

Use your "bypass processes" list as a log of your highest earning victims. Keep accounts that you have stolen large amounts of bitcoins from and revisit them often. This is called "Camping" and is the crackers best technique. If your target upgrades his firewall or password encryptor, ask yourself two questions:
  1.  "Is he earning me heaps of money?
  2. "Can I crack / bypass his upgraded app?
If your answer is no to any of the above questions, remove them from your list for they aren't worth the time. Otherwise, grab a pen and note down your targets ip address. You will need it to start the bypass process again.

If your target has upgraded their firewall. Remove the ip from your "bypassing processes" and head over to your scanner app. Type the ip address in the top bar, then tap the "Ping" button to check if your target is still at the same address. Simply tap on the result you get and start the bypass process all over again. 

If your target has upgraded their password encryptor. Remove their ip from your "cracking processes" and then log back into their virtual device. Make your way to the bank screen and hit the "crack" button to start the process again.



Leveling

At low levels you can get away with upgrading mainly your pasword cracker and your device. This is because you can save most of your earnings. However, at high levels app upgrades become expensive quickly. You will most likey need to save up over a few days to buy high level upgrades. At this stage, protecting your bitcoins is very important. No bitcoins = No upgrades. Protect your bitcoins by leveling up your encryptor.

Tip1: You gain rep for every successful crack and bypass. Throwing in some low level bypass / cracks can be a nice way to kill 'waiting time'.

Tip2: Loading up too many processes will slow down all of your cracking and bypassing processes.  If there is a high level you need to hack, let that be the only running process and it will complete faster.



Upgrades

Your three highest level apps should be in the following order:
  1. Password cracker.
  2. Password encryptor.
  3. Firewall bypasser. 
Prioritise upgrading your device and network when you can. The rest of the apps are up to you.



App Summary

Increasing your offense
  • Password Cracker -> Increase the speed of cracks and allows you to crack higher level encryptors.
  • Device -> Increase the speed of both bypasses and cracks.
  • Firewall Bypasser -> Increase the speed of firewall bypassing and allows you to crack higher level firewalls.
Increasing your defense
  • Encrypter -> Increase the time attackers spend to crack your password.
  • Firewall -> Increase the time it takes for your attackers to bypass your own firewall.
Useful
  • Network -> Decreases download times for stolen apps and uploads.
  • Spyware -> Watch your targets logs for activity. Steal when they are on a hacking spree or attack ip addresses left in their log. 
Competitive
  • Antivirus -> Removes malware uploaded to your system and restores your rep. Makes sure nobody is spying on your logs.

Congratulations! You have made it this far, you are surely the next best cracker. Did I help? Maybe I missed something? Leave a comment below ;)

HackEx - Finding your playing style

Over the next few days I will cover the different playing styles I have identified for the popular android simulator, HackEx. Links will be updated as the posts are added so check back often to see any updates.



List of Playing Styles


  • Low Level Playing styles
  • High Level Playing Styles
    • Specialised Cracker
    • Spam herder
  • Premium Playing Styles
    • Happy camper / Banking Trojan
    • Worm Spreader
    • Master Hacker


Sunday, 1 June 2014

HackEx - Guide to Starting Up

Introduction

Follow this guide for a quick introduction to the HackEx gameplay. All information is given based on my own experience with the game. You will learn the basic strategy of "piggybacking" to get yourself into a good position right from the very beginning.