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Kickstand77

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I’m fighting an intruder who has been getting in my 5G network the last 23 months. I’m getting fairly close to kicking him out of my network & Apple devices, but he’s really good, or actually very evil. To help my struggle, I bought this 11-year old MacBook Pro i7 512GB 16GB-ram, considered one of the best Apple made, but you can’t sign into any of your Apple accounts. I got it for $125 on eBay. So, being I can’t afford a $2,400 laptop, I installed OpenCore Legacy Patcher & discovered a bunch of ways the hacker was accessing my Apple devices & network. He’s evil!!! Louisville police detective said to submit IC3 complaint at the FBI website & I submitted two. I had to go to the library cuz the hacker was preventing me from uploading the report. I’ve had to use library computers for several matters because the hacker seemed to interfere quite easily. I even mailed a 4-page Pages document to the local FBI office in Louisville, KY begging for help. Not a word from them. He’s still got my DNS messed up & there’s bunches of Netstat info showing hundreds of connections & so on. HELP, please. I could tell you stories that will blow your mind. OH, I tried posting in another forum & I beleive he took the post. SO, I’m trying again & I’ll copy it this time.

<netstat -R> Command revealed way too much info I’m concerned about.
50+ active kernel control sockets, 20 sctive kernel event sockets, 10 registered kernel control modules, 175 active LOCAL (UNIX) domain sockets, & 50 active internet connections.
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The following is my current network information using ifconfig in macOS Terminal
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This is my first post about anything i’ve experienced. The hacker even prevented me from participating in Verizon forums. So, I’m giving this forum a shot. Any help with this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike D. , aka “Kickstand77"
 
At a glance there's nothing super glaringly bad here.

As I mentioned when you posted this before, your best bet is to find a cybersecurity expert and have them look into this in some detail.
 
I even mailed a 4-page Pages document to the local FBI office in Louisville, KY begging for help.
Law goes on facts, not pleading. They aren’t Batman.

You don’t provide any info or details about the attack vector. What 5G network? Are you talking about a 5G hotspot, the 5G band on your wifi? What network are they getting into is my first question.

Without knowing anything about your network, not much we can do.

Getting onto your wifi network still doesn’t give them access to your Apple services. One has nothing to do with the other. Just take a deep breath and give us info about your actual network set up. Then give us details about your iCloud account as well as what you mean by accessing your Apple devices. Like, do you see them move your files around or reading your emails? I suspect they likely just have your passwords and your wifi isn’t setup securely. Both are easily fixed. We just need to know the details.

You’re looking at sockets and whatnot but clearly have no idea what any of that means. Let’s roll it back to the basics.
 
You should try asking a friendly AI to explain these screenshots to you. (Unfortunately the forum rules forbid me to post their analysis here. But Google Gemini gave a very detailed breakdown.)

You are looking at normal Apple/macOS behaviour. From these screenshots, there is no evidence of you being hacked.
 
You're tilting at windmills.

I'll assume you're a rational person who just has "enough knowledge to get themselves into trouble" and say you should do one of three things:
1. TRULY educate yourself on network security (i.e. take some classes - not "read Reddit")
2. Engage the services of a professional security consultant
3. Simply accept that Terminal and Console Viewer are "over your head" and stop looking at them.
 
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