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Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/sextortion-with-a-twist-spyware-takes-webcam-pics-of-users-watching-porn/

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  • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Black Mirror had an episode about this.

    Surprised it took someone this long to actually make it.

    I forget the name of the episode. If you’re curious, it’s on Netflix, it’s in season 3, and it’s right before San Junipero. It was bleak AF, which is why the only happy (and arguably the best) Black Mirror episode came right after it.

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    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It's Shut Up and Dance, my fav

      the only

      I disagree. For starters there's also

      Episodes from the first five seasons with happy endings (the way they're presented, at least), spoilers duh

      USS Callister
      Hang the DJ
      Be Right Back (though the stakes aren't that high either)
      Arguably one from Bandersnatch

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    • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, with quite a plot twist. The entire time I was practically yelling at the tv “who cares, then let’s them release the video of you jerking off and own it. We all do it!” Then at the end, “… oh.”

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      • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, the part I don’t get is, the video of you isn’t going to include what you’re looking at. And if it does you can say they faked it. They could put anything there. They don’t have a shot that includes both you and the screen. They can get sound though, so they can match sound, but that can be faked too. Strip out the audio. Separate the sounds of what you were really watching from the ambient sounds (and the grunts/moans from you) and then dub those sounds over the new audio and it should be passable.

        Also, I just wouldn’t do anything embarrassing with a camera pointed at me. I’d cover the camera or point it away from me. Even sitting on the toilet browsing, back cameras point down at the floor, front camera points up, maybe gets the top of my face? Nothing private is seen by the camera by my best intentions. I just do this naturally. I guess others don’t?

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      RATs existed for a long time but you needed to manually hit record I think? I’m assuming this is just some extra automation.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, so I have a paranoid (or maybe not) idea that somewhere in 2012 my classmates and teachers played a prank.

      That they were insulted by what I said, and decided to check my words (on Silicon Valley people being more noble than Russian elite class). I thought I was talking to them, but they in fact were recording, translating and sending my words to some of those Silicon Valley people (very improbably high-level). And things pretty normal for me to say as almost a compliment (on democracy and meritocracy and freedom and on racism being bad) insulted those people so much that I’ve got a lot of such privacy invasions. So - that in the end, eh, someone of said elite class solved the problem by wasting one of those Silicon Valley people (there was the added insult of that someone being blamed for the thing).

      Dunno how to check and whether I should, cause if it happened, I don’t have a nuke.

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  • stickly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Been receiving emails about this for years now. Finally can trust those messages.

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    • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been trusting them for years. It’s a miracle that they were able to setup a webcam I’ve never owned in my life and have it filming where I always go to spank one out.

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      • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They did the same to me. I think they’ve got cameras set up all through my house. So I started walking around naked so they’ll have something nice to look at. I haven’t gotten a thank you yet though.

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  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    don’t stream, download your porn from usenet like a civilised person

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    • rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i get how usenet is better than streaming from a popup filled website, but i fail to see how it is better than torrenting
      qbittorrent has built-in search as well

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You don’t understand the difference between Usenet and torrents.

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Popups? In 2025?

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    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      empornium FTW!

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    • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You could but you know there is nsfw content right here on Lemmy

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In my day the popular kids would share it over bluetooth.

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      • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bluetooth? I got mine from a dial-up BBS via a 1200 baud modem.

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  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t touched a webcam in years but I just touched myself 5 minutes ago

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lots of folks I’d imagine use their phones, which has cameras on both sides

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      • vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why the hell can’t I get a phone without a front camera? I never use it and it creates an annoying hole in my screen

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The spam messages have been duly ignored for years. LOL.

    “If you have access to my computer, why are you blackmailing me? You could just steal the money from the accounts.”

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No 2FA for transfers at your bank?

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just capture the code when they’re doing some actual shit

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  • meejle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Surprised the UK age verification selfies haven’t been used to extort people yet. It’d be so easy (and is such an obvious reason why the law is bullshit).

    SecurAge🛡️
    “Log in with Google to verify your age.”

    “Sorry, we weren’t able to verify you using your Google Account. Please take a selfie for verification.”

    “Now give us £1000, or we’ll send your picture and details of the porn you were trying to access to everyone in your contacts.”

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  • 6stringringer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is what they would see if I was being targeted. Image

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That only works if you're ashamed about rubbing one out.

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    • realitista@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seriously, go ahead and try to give someone that shit. No one would be surprised I watch porn and I don't do it in any sort of interesting way. I'm guessing no one would even want to watch it.

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      • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Worst voyeur video ever.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let them watch. Bwahahaha

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll reply the same way I do to the scam attempts: Do it bitch.

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    • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also if you are sending my family a copy, send it to my email address too. Thanks.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1000001986

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  • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn, they got a picture of some gaffer tape, that’s cool.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Weird kink but okay

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    hardware camera disablers.

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      also called two year old post it note that has never been taken off

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Go on

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      • rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        tape

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This, thank you Framework!

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Reaction videos” are already too common.

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  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why am I not surprised that this shit’s freely available on GitHub.

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  • fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These days it’s pretty weak blackmail shit. A little AI doctoring can create the same videos… So even if it’s possible, that doesn’t mean it’s plausible, and nobody cares what you do in your bedroom by yourself.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A friend of mine had this happen to him and he just told them to release it, nothing happened. He was willing to take the embarrassment if it did though is the crucial thing.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is this a new thing? I remember hearing about this like a decade ago

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    well i hope they like ineffable husbands

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