4 days agoIT expert: Beware of blackmailers, cameras and microphones can be tapped
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Information Technology expert Iron Dolly has written about cyber blackmail in Kosovo. It came through a Facebook text saying that through photos and videos, personal materials can be stolen from users' phones. Through these materials people can be blackmailed by being forced to pay thousands of euros so that [...]
Through these materials, people can be blackmailed by being forced to pay thousands of euros so that they do not distribute.
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In early December, Le Parisien had published a chronicle on the arrest of a member of a criminal network in France who engaged in cyber blackmail at a global level. The characteristics of this group was blackmailing themselves through images or compromised videos, which were stolen from virus-infected phones, or by misleading individuals to share intimate material with unknown persons. They were then blackmailed by forcing them to pay thousands of euros, in order that they (photo or video) not be sent to their relatives.
Such activity is widespread in Kosovo. This year alone, there have been dozens of cases that have contacted me personally to advise them on how to act after they have fallen into the trap of cyber blackmail. Unfortunately, such a criminal group seems to have developed in Kosovo as well. Now victims are contacted by people who speak fluent Albanian, and who know detailed information about victims, and that's a very disturbing fact.
My advice in all cases is the same: you have to be very careful what we store with our electronic devices, what actions we do while using and standing next to them. It's never sure that someone hasn't been in the device and constantly monitors our camera or microphone. But if the plant victim of such an attack, the best way out of the situation is to ignore contact with blackmailers. In no way should we refuse to cooperate with them. It should be seen that criminal groups receive photos/video from tens of thousands of individuals, but they deal only with a small group that falls prey to blackmail, continue to communicate with fear, or obey their orders by paying the required tribute. In all cases I recommended that people not pay, and their materials never came online. Co-operation with justice bodies is necessary, although these groups operate anonymously and are hard to find.
