Hacking a porn site

By Ryan Morrison For Mailonline. It's one of the oldest online scams around - 'hackers' claiming to have secretly filmed people through their webcams while they watch porn, and threatening to share the footage with their loved ones. Most of the time these are just empty threats, in an attempt to get the victim to hand over money, but a new report reveals that the technology to do this does actually exist. PsiXBot has been around for several years but a new module has been added that allows hackers to capture video from a users camera. Stock photo.

Hackers now target porn website users, especially PornHub and XNXX users accounts and get away with their login credentials. This kind of hacking, as per security experts, has nothing strange about it. Pornography, despite many ongoing campaigns to decrease online pornographic content and traffic, remains one of the most popular and sought-after kinds of online content. Hence, it is quite natural for cybercriminals to target porn websites and their users. A recent report by Kaspersky Lab discusses this kind of hacking in detail. As per Kaspersky Lab experts, such attacks increased considerably in numbers last year. They report that compared to , there was a three-fold increase in such attacks in

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February 1, pm Updated February 1, pm. Porn is being used as bait for shady scams designed to steal money and private information from internet users. Internet security giant Kaspersky has published a detailed report that found more than , instances of porn-themed attacks in These scams tried to attack more than 50, computers around the world, often in an attempt to hack premium accounts for porn websites to sell on the dark web. Another scam mimics sex dating services, asking randy internet users to enter their credit card details — which are then nabbed by hackers.