Hackers have learned to block electronic chastity belt and demanded a ransom
New technologies bring about new crime. If not so long ago, the hackers stole money from the accounts and intimate photos from cloud services, but today the sinister hand of cybercrime has reached the bottom of this. Villains learned to block male chastity belt and demand for the return of the control device a certain amount in bitcoin.
Experts in the field of information security finally got access to the source code of the malicious software ChastityLock, which is connected with a piquant and not very pleasant story. Last year users of a popular sex toy, which is a chastity belt with a remote control, came under attack, which hackers have made using this SOFTWARE.
It looks like Qiui Cellmate who have learned to control hackers
Qiui Cellmate is a locking device that fits over the penis men and can not use it for anything except urination. Chastity belt can be unlocked by a person on a mobile gadget which is equipped with a special application and who knows the six-digit security code.
Described the situation in his report experts Pen Test Partners. Unfortunately, the forecast of experts in the field of cybersecurity has come true. Criminals took possession of the codes and began to selectively block other members in different parts of the world.
Attacked fans of "strawberries" received from hackers a letter in which they were required to list in their wallet with 0.2 bitcoins that at the rate this electronic currency then was 270 dollars (20 thousand rubles).
However, the edition BleepingComputer found out that the attackers never got their money. This information they said an anonymous source close to the hackers who have committed "sabotage". On how blocked the guys were able to extract steel from the captivity of their "household", not reported. Might have helped the case company's technical support Qiui that issued the device.