If you watch porn online, then after reading this news you can stop doing so. Watching porn online can put you in big trouble because you are unknowingly introducing yourself to hackers' targets. Now-a-days hackers hack the computer of the users watching online porn and monitor it and cunningly record their video and you don't even get a clue of it.
Video recorded on webcam
Hackers install a malware in a PC or laptop to record the user's online activity. After the malware is installed, hackers create videos via webcam, in which the user is seen watching porn. The real game starts here. These hackers send an email to the user asking for money. Not only this, in case of non-payment of money, there is also a threat to send the user's video to all contacts. In the world of cybercrime, it is called sextortion (blackmailing videos).
These hackers fill the users' inbox with sextortion emails. Hackers are trying to make the user so upset by these emails that he is ready to pay them. Hackers demand money in bitcoins. Users usually ignore these emails, but these hackers also have their break. In order to make users believe about the recorded porn videos, these hackers give information about some online details of the user.
Hackers have become smart
Until a few years ago such emails used to go to spam folders instead of inboxes. However, with the advancement of technology, hackers have become quite smart. These hackers have now found a way to bypass the filter security offered by email services like Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud. Therefore, such emails related to sextortion now reach the user's inbox directly.
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