If you watch online porn, then you might think twice after reading this article. Watching porn Online might cost you heavy. By doing so you become the target of hackers without your knowledge. With the growing number of porn viewers, it becomes easy for the hackers to target the mass. They hack your system and record your activities through your computer webcam and you don’t get bit clue of this.
They Record Video using Your Webcam
To record the online activity of users, the hackers install one malware in their laptop or PC and record them watching porn via webcam. There starts the real game. Now the hackers send a mail to the users attching this video and demand money. Even they threaten to send this video to all their contacts in case the user denies for money. Thus the hackers force the users to pay money and this activity is well known as Sextortion in the world of cyber crime.
Your Inbox gets Filled with Sextortion Mails
The hackers fill the user’s inbox with Sextortion mails. Purpose of sending such mails to users is to emotionally blackmail them to such an extent that tehy would get ready to pay the demanded amount. The hackers demand this amount in Bitcoins. Generally the users avoid such mails, so the hackers are always ready with an alternative. To convince the users about their recorded video, the hackers send them some online details of the video.
The Hackers become Smart Day by Day
Few days ago, such mails were considered as spam and hence was sent to the spam folder. But with the advanced technology, the hackers now have become enough smart to bypass the filter technologies of Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud and ensure to send these mails directly to the User’s inbox.
Emails sent in Foreign Languages Also
According to a report from Sleeping Computers, Sextortion these days is also done in different languages across the globe. With that the hackers also divide Bitcoin Address into two different parts so that it must easily pass through the Email Filters. In the entire mail, you can find only one English word i.e. Google Translator.
However, the only matter of relief is that Google, Apple and Microsoft are now developing techonlogy to prevent such scams. We can only hope that such sextortions might be stopped iin future. But the best way to avoid such blackmails is to stop watching Online Porn.