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SW eng jailed for 2yrs,using RATs&crypters to steal intimate pics

»www.theregister.com/2022 ··· y_pleas/
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A software engineer was this week jailed in the UK for two years after pleading guilty to accessing women and children's webcams, Skype accounts and iCloud backups for more than a decade. Robert Davies, of Byron Close, Colwick, Nottinghamshire, catfished many victims through a web of fake social media accounts, Nottingham Crown Court was told on Monday. The 32-year-old, who had no previous criminal record, tricked women and children alike into exposing themselves to his fake social media profiles. He only came to the attention of the National Crime Agency in 2019 after buying cyber crime tools, the NCA said. His details were also found in the WeLeakInfo bust, with a multinational police operation taking down the stolen-credentials-resale site the following year. Investigators discovered he'd purchased crypters (encryption suites designed to disguise malware) and remote administration trojans (RATs), with the NCA later saying it visited more than 30 victims. Once he was in contact with his victims Davies would infect their devices with malware he had disguised with crypters. This let his spyware evade detection by common antivirus suites. By deploying the RATs he was then able to steal "any sexual images" from their devices. ... Simon Stevens, Davies' barrister, told the court in mitigation that his client accepted his guilt and had been recently diagnosed with autism.
...welp, sure the two years in jail will give him ample time to ensure certain parts of his anatomy are kept private. Take what you will from this.

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