Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn
Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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stickly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 3 weeks ago
Been receiving emails about this for years now. Finally can trust those messages.
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.
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.
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
don’t stream, download your porn from usenet like a civilised person
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 wellFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
You don’t understand the difference between Usenet and torrents.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Popups? In 2025?
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
empornium FTW!
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You could but you know there is nsfw content right here on Lemmy
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
In my day the popular kids would share it over bluetooth.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bluetooth? I got mine from a dial-up BBS via a 1200 baud modem.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I haven’t touched a webcam in years but I just touched myself 5 minutes ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Lots of folks I’d imagine use their phones, which has cameras on both sides
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
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.”
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
No 2FA for transfers at your bank?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Just capture the code when they’re doing some actual shit
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.”
6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
teft@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That only works if you're ashamed about rubbing one out.
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.
teft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Worst voyeur video ever.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Let them watch. Bwahahaha
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ll reply the same way I do to the scam attempts: Do it bitch.
IllNess@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Also if you are sending my family a copy, send it to my email address too. Thanks.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Damn, they got a picture of some gaffer tape, that’s cool.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Weird kink but okay
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
hardware camera disablers.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
also called two year old post it note that has never been taken off
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This, thank you Framework!
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
“Reaction videos” are already too common.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why am I not surprised that this shit’s freely available on GitHub.
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.
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.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this a new thing? I remember hearing about this like a decade ago
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
well i hope they like ineffable husbands
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.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
It's Shut Up and Dance, my fav
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
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.”
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?
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.
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.