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New Trojan Records Your Screen When on Sex Related Sites

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

MrPlow writes:

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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @08:05PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @08:05PM (#881569)

    New Trojan Records Your Screen When on Sex Related Sites

    Leave it up to Soylent News editors to not know when hyphens are required.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 18 2019, @08:56AM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 18 2019, @08:56AM (#881690) Journal
    Fair point - let us know when you want to help us out on the editing team.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday August 18 2019, @08:22PM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Sunday August 18 2019, @08:22PM (#881855) Homepage
      Unfair point. It's Bleeping Computer's editorial team that are responsible for that slip.
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      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday August 19 2019, @07:31AM

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 19 2019, @07:31AM (#882020) Journal

        Well, six of one and half a dozen of the other. We could have put a hyphen in the title - though it wouldn't then match TFS - but the rest is quoted and remained unchanged because of that.