The number of Internet users victims of cyber attacks has more than tripled, going from 28,000 complaints in 2018 to more than 90,000 in 2019, according to the annual report of the government platform for assistance to victims of cyberbullying, published on January 29. Among these victims, 38% were blackmailed on the webcam.
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It is a cyber-malware practice which consists in threatening a person to share intimate videos of them taken without their knowledge thanks, supposedly, to the hacking of their webcam. A threat that is not always justified. The cyber harassers claim to have managed to hack their victim's computer by citing one or other of their passwords found on the web via the data leak or other.
Obviously, the objective of cyber harassers is to extract money from their victim. In fact, the perpetrators are not really in possession of images of their victims, JĂ©rĂ´me Notin, director of the device cybermalvaillance.gouv.fr, told BFMTV. "The phenomenon stands out on this point, and by the scale of the campaigns observed, to sextortion, which involves direct exchanges between the hacker and his victim," he said.
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