How Hackers Could Be Watching You Right Now Through Your Webcam
New computer security research has found that even newer PCs with built-in webcams are prone to an attack that allows hackers to remotely watch and surveil their victims.
Hackers are using tools such as www.mutefriend.com which allows them to log keystrokes live online as well as take Webcam Snapshots and Screenshots of the victims computer without them even knowing.
Best of all, these hacks are all undetectable by virus scanners! That’s right! It may seem like its a virus, but even today’s state of the art virus scanners do not pick up the files.
www.mutefriend.com is just one of the many keyloggers out there, except its entirely online based. So no matter where you are, once you have installed the file on the victims computer, you can log into any browser around the world and take webcam snaps, screenshots and log key strokes.
Here are just some of the many features it includes:- Completely undetectable: No need for a private crypter or a private keylogger to use our service.
- Runs silently: Our keylogger executes silently on your target’s computer and runs automatically on each windows start-up.
- Record Keyboard Keys: Record all the pressed keys on your target’s computer keyboard and see the log changing on real time.
- Take webcam pictures: Remotely take webcam pictures and save them to your computer.
- Browser Killer: Ability to kill all browsers instances on the remote computer to gather specific data more quickly.
- Remote File Manager: Remotely explore your target’s hard drives and download any file you want
- Sending messages: You can send a message box to your target computer and write for him whatever you want
- Access from anywhere: Unlike any other keylogger, our keylogger allow you to access from any device, anywhere in the world
- Remotely open the browser: Open with a single click any website you want your target computer to visit.
- Runs silently: Our keylogger executes silently on your target’s computer and runs automatically on each windows start-up.
- Record Keyboard Keys: Record all the pressed keys on your target’s computer keyboard and see the log changing on real time.
- Take webcam pictures: Remotely take webcam pictures and save them to your computer.
- Browser Killer: Ability to kill all browsers instances on the remote computer to gather specific data more quickly.
- Remote File Manager: Remotely explore your target’s hard drives and download any file you want
- Sending messages: You can send a message box to your target computer and write for him whatever you want
- Access from anywhere: Unlike any other keylogger, our keylogger allow you to access from any device, anywhere in the world
- Remotely open the browser: Open with a single click any website you want your target computer to visit.
Hackers have been able to turn remote computers into “slaves” for years. As far back as 1998, security researchers have exploited the loopholes in webcam security to demonstrate how easy it is to turn webcams into surveillance devices. Even worse, a webcam hack could leave a victim vulnerable to blackmail or theft of online banking passwords. Manufacturers such as Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), which pioneered the built-in laptop camera, have taken measures to ensure that in case a computer is compromised, the user will at least be alerted by the camera’s warning light. But according to the Washington Post, it is still possible for either the FBI or a kid with no programming chops at all to spy on someone without triggering a warning light.
In a recent paper titled “iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED,” Matthew Brocker and Stephen Checkoway of Johns Hopkins University confirmed that hackers could get around the warning light on an Apple laptop. They were able to do this even without gaining root access to the computer.
The paper’s authors focused on older Macs, but the Post quoted Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) security specialist Charlie Miller saying that even newer laptops could also be hacked in such a way.
Just this fall, Cassidy Wolf, Miss Teen USA, fell victim to one of these individuals. One of her high-school classmates monitored her for months, taking nude pictures of the teenager. She received those same pictures of herself by email, and the police eventually caught her tormentor.
If you are concerned about your webcam security, you don’t need to buy expensive antivirus software. Just put a piece of removable tape over your webcam until you need to use it.
www.mutefriend.com
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