So, while the attackers are using porn less as a decoy, they have yet to inject the malicious files with more harmful threats, such as Trojans and worms. In total, 29 websites displayed more than 15,000 offers to buy one or more accounts to pornography websites (with of course, no legal guarantees of delivering on their promise). Do not click on questionable websites when they are offered in search results and do not install anything that comes from them. The results of the research conducted in the last year showed that four of the researched markets that offered the widest range of stolen credentials provided users with more than 5,239 unique offers. We conducted research on this issue again in 2018, analyzing 20 of the top-rated Tor marketplaces listed on DeepDotWeb - an open Tor site that contains a dynamic ranking of dark markets evaluated by Tor administrators based on customers’ feedback.





The research on porn-related cyberthreats we did previously proved that there is a very well developed supply and demand chain for stolen credentials on the dark web. It turned out during our research that cybercriminals are disguising malware or not-a-virus files as video files and naming them using popular porn tags. Apart from the mass distribution of ‘standard’ advertising offering adult content girl on top porn legitimate and illegal websites, this type of threat hasn’t been spotted using pornography in a creative way. They devise exploits to compromise system security using any vulnerabilities they find. Subsequently, we ran those tags against our database of threats and through the Kaspersky Security Network databases and figured out which of them were used in malicious attacks and how often. Check any email attachments with a security solution before opening them -especially from dark web entities (even if they are expected to come from an anonymous source). We particularly track botnets that are made of malware.Upon installation on a PC, this malware can monitor which web pages are opened, or create a fake one where the user enters their login and password credentials.



These Trojans were after credentials to accounts for 10 famous adult content websites (Brazzers, Chaturbate, Pornhub, Myfreecams, Youporn, Wilshing, Motherless, XNXX, X-videos). Out of the website’s 200,000 most visited blogs, 11 percent of these websites are devoted to sex-related content. Such websites can be found in third or fourth place in the list of search results. Before clicking any link, check the link address shown, even in the search results of trusted search engines. To check this, we took 100 of the top listed pornographic websites (as suggested by search engines after entering a query for the word ‘porn’), plus those that have the word ‘porn’ in the title. However, in 2018, the number of users affected decreased to 658,930. This could be the result of search engines putting processes in place to fight against ‘black SEO’ activities and protecting users from malicious content. Some though prefer to highlight examples of when adult content can result in people being denied their human rights. These threats are typically distributed through affiliate programs focused on earning money as a result of users installing applications and clicking on an advertisement.



The landscape for types and families of mobile threats is also different than for PC. Based on the data we were able to collect, in 2017 there were 27 variations of bots, belonging to three families of banking Trojans, attempting to steal credentials (Betabot, Neverquest and Https://Girlontopporn.Com Panda). Hart's former friend Jonathan Todd Jackson was charged with attempting to export the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle star in May 2018. In September 2018, Jackson pleaded not guilty. As well as AdWare, pornography is also used to distribute ransomware (4% in 2018) but on a much smaller scale compared to 2017, when more than 10% of users faced such malicious programs. AdWare, for instance, can show users unsolicited advertising, alter search results and collect user data to show targeted, contextual advertising. While Watkins has contended there was little he could do to rein in the anonymous user base, 8chan often has appeared to encourage the hateful chatter on its site. And the New York Times doesn’t site any. In Q4, 2017, the overall number of attempts to access phishing pages pretending to be one of the listed websites was 1,608. Within a year, in Q4 2018, the number of such attempts (21,902) was more than ten times higher.



Furthermore, these e-mails have been sent out in more languages than previously found. Moreover, they became more sophisticated and were not only threatening the user, but also ‘proving’ the legitimacy of the scammers claims by providing the user with actual information about them. For example, to access an alleged adult video, the phishing page requires the user to download and update a video player. One of the burning topics of the adult-content industry is the controversy surrounding paid subscriptions to access websites. Otherwise, the website they want to access does not allow them to watch any free content at all unless they pay. Do not download pirated software and other illegal content. Pornographic content phishing can also be used to install malicious software. Why resort to elaborate data-stealing Trojans, when you can just trick people into giving up their passwords? Some people make it freely available for all, some decide to limit who can see it. The video, it has been claimed, came from two of his former disciples —the alleged rape victim herself, Aarthi Rao, and Nithyananda’s former driver, Lenin Karuppan, who claim they placed a hidden camera inside an air purifier in Nithyananda’s bedroom. As the victim enters their password, the threat actor captures the credentials to the user’s social network account.