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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday August 17 2019, @08:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-know-what-you-watched-last-night dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

A new Spambot Trojan targeting French people has been discovered that records a victim's screen when they are using sites related to sex, pornography, and known pornographic sites.

We have all heard about the fake "sextortion" email scams that tell recipients that they have installed software that records them while you are on adult web sites. After a year of these emails being sent out, many people have come to recognize them as a scam.

In a new report by released today by ESET, a new Spambot is about to make things confusing. That is because it has been discovered to record your screen while you are on porn sites or pages with keywords related to sex.

[...]This new Spambot is being named Varenyky by ESET researchers who said they discovered it when they saw an uptick of infections targeting French users in may. This same Trojan was also found by Any.run in June.

[...]Although the Varenyky Trojan had the ability to record these videos, ESET has seen no indication that they have been used in an actual sextortion campaign against the victim or others.

I'll leave the jokes to you lot this time.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-trojan-records-your-screen-when-on-sex-related-sites/


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @09:59AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @09:59AM (#881478)

    It's only for Windows.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:26AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:26AM (#881490) Journal
    ... and only if you have your keyboard encoding as fr-FR.
  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @12:02PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @12:02PM (#881498)

    Aren't Trojan's supposed to protect you from stuff like this?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by janrinok on Saturday August 17 2019, @12:56PM (4 children)

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 17 2019, @12:56PM (#881504) Journal
      I think this one is meant to protect you from the French...
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @02:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @02:07PM (#881526)

        Lila Says the french are not the problem..

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @05:51PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @05:51PM (#881558)

        Found the guy who never boned a French chic!

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Saturday August 17 2019, @05:59PM (1 child)

          by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 17 2019, @05:59PM (#881560) Journal
          Hardly - I married one!
          • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:29AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:29AM (#881656)

            So does that instead mean not anymore?