Hackers Infringing User Privacy via Spycams
Security researchers at SophosLabs have asked web camera users to be careful while online as hackers are exploiting them (webcams) to keep an eye on Internet users' activities.
The security firm has cited several examples to make its observations more clear and true. Among these, the most prominent one was imprisonment of 47-year-old man for spying a 17-year-old girl through webcam and threatening her. The man was arrested in 2005 for implanting a Trojan on the teenager's computer. Actually, he had sent an e-mail embedded with the Trojan that acquired control of her webcam. He was arrested when he tried to blackmail the teenager into posing nude and the girl contacted the police.
SophosLabs has given one more example to prove its observations true. It said that a man in Spain had noticed his victim's activities for over three years after discovering that her webcam equipped computer had been infected by a Trojan horse. The female came to know of this spying activity when she received some of her own pictures sent by him accidently.
