"All of our computers might currently be infected," the professor said. Professor Seltsikas said hackers on the other side of the world were watching thousands of Australians through their webcams, and waiting for them to have a wank.Īctually, turns out there's a site where you can already watch the live footage of thousands of CCTV cameras from all over the world. "There's a lot more people than we know because there could be hackers in big centers watching video streams just waiting for something to happen," he said.
He said there were probably a lot more computers infected than we know. Philip Seltsikas, a cyber-security expert and associate professor from Sydney, told Veronica & Lewis there was no sure way of defending against ransomware. It won't block the microphone, meaning conversations or *other noises* could still be recorded and stolen, and it won't stop someone locking up your files. But taping over the camera doesn't prevent all kinds of ransomware. It's easyĪpparently this is what Mark Zuckerberg does: "I don't know if they ever did buy it." Just put tape over the camera. "I tried to send them the most official message I could," he said. He took the phone and messaged the the girl pretending to be a police officer. "He was pretty embarrassed but the fear of something happening overpowered the embarrassment."īrendan managed to talk his friend down.
"By the time he got to calling us he was basically ready to transfer them all the money he had," Brendan said. Then we heard from Brendan, a caller whose friend had been blackmailed after meeting a girl online, chatting with her by video, and then being filmed wanking. "Our uni got hit with this and so many crew were rumored to get blackmailed." "My sister in law had to pay ransom to save her online business - her entire livelihood was locked up by these criminals and she felt she had no option but to pay them." So I ended up bluffing them and said I told everyone that matters to me about the video and couldn't afford to pay them. I stressed out for a while, called the cops they said they couldn't do anything about it. Sent me a list of all my contacts and a copy of the video. "I had the exact same thing happen to me. Nothing ever was sent out online, but I've now had to change my Facebook account name, shut down my LinkedIn out of fear of my work details being revealed and I'm afraid of what may arise in the future should I want to build a LinkedIn profile etc again." Now in hindsight I know it was the wrong thing to do, but I was tunnel visioned by fear and panic at the time. "The exact same thing happened to me, but I transferred around $1000 via wire transfer to the person in the Ukraine. Not much we can do when the baddies live overseas. "I'm a cop in NSW, this happens all the time, a few weeks ago I had three guys in one day come in to report the same thing. Perhaps our most trusty resource for knowing what's going on in the suburban bedrooms and student share-houses of Australia is the good ol' triple j textline: Instead, what we have is a bunch of widely varying statistics and some not very helpful but quite scary and exciting maps showing cyber attacks as they occur around the globe. It recorded about 4,000 reports of 'scams or fraud' cybercrime in a three-month period at the end of last year.īasically 'cybercrime' is hard to quantify and we don't have a clear picture. The statistics from Australia's very own government cybercrime initiative are a lot lower. It said these attacks resulted in millions of dollars of ransom payments. According to another, there were more than one million instances of a single kind of ransomware (CryptoLocker) in Australia in October last year.
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Security software companies, who may have an interest in exaggerating the threat, say they have detected vast numbers of attacks.Īccording to one, there were more than 200,000 ransomware attacks in Australia in April-May alone this year. Matt may have been feeling very much alone, but in fact he was part of an emerging trend of ransomware attacks in Australia.Įxact statistics are difficult to come by, as many people who are attacked don't go to police or make their situation public. But then they replied with a screenshot of his Facebook friends, and personal details from his website. He told them to do their worst and release the footage. "There was an email saying they were going to release footage to all my Facebook friends and people I worked with if I don't pay them money." He had been filmed in a compromising situation. A 'ransomware' program had infected his computer allowing the hackers to film him through the webcam. "There I was in all my glory," he told triple j's Veronica & Lewis. One day in Melbourne, when the sun was out and the birds were singing, Matt opened an email and was greeted with a video of a man wanking.
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