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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

That was the case in England, where the National Crime Agency (NCA) last year arrested 33-year-old Stefan Rigo of Leeds as part of an international effort to take out the major RAT vendors. In May 2014, the FBI arrested the alleged ringleaders behind Blackshades, a sophisticated RAT widely available online for $40. Several months later, the NCA caught up with Rigo, a Blackshades user who had purchased the RAT using his ex-girlfriend's identity. A search of Rigo's computers revealed "a series of images that involved people engaged in sexual acts over Skype or in front of their computers," [arstechnica.com] according to an NCA statement.

An NCA spokesperson told the BBC that the agency had confirmed the identities of 14 spy victims, none of whom were aware of the voyeurism. (Other victims may simply have been unidentifiable.) In addition, half of the 14 knew Rigo personally—he had apparently made special efforts to infect female friends and acquaintances, a supremely personal violation, and then spied on them for hours at a time.

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