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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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Saturday August 17 2019, @04:27PM (4 children)
People are better off if they can get over shame about consenting sexuality, or never indulge in it in the first place.
That kind of shame has done no one any good, ever.
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(Score: 3, Disagree) by JNCF on Sunday August 18 2019, @01:27AM (3 children)
Uhm, it it's probably prevented a lot of accidental pregnancies over the (hundreds of?) thousands of years it's been around. Yes, we have plenty of other birth control options available now. Yes, it would be nice if we adapted to that faster. No, it isn't a black and white situation where this shame came about for no reason whatsoever and it never did anybody any good. I'd like it to be that simple, it would make me feel righteous and dignified in my dismissal of that sad tradition, I just don't think it is.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 18 2019, @01:11PM (2 children)
I'm pretty sure nobody ever got pregnant from watching (or reading) porn. Even before modern measures of contraception were invented. It's only performing the act that causes pregnancy.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:51PM
I'm pretty sure plenty of people have gotten pregnant from "consenting sexuality," the shame about which fyngyrz was commenting on.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday August 20 2019, @12:19AM
Yes, and so have beatings, lynchings, axe murders and drownings. Etc.
But we don't encourage those, do we?
There are better ways to regulate behavior than imposing an entirely dysfunctional neurosis on people.
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