Delilah malware secretly taps webcam, blackmails and recruits insider threat victims

If your monitor has been freezing, hopefully it’s just a weird glitch; but if it started after you visited popular adult or gaming sites, and you have a webcam, then hopefully you are not victim of Delilah, the “first insider threat Trojan.” If you are, then cyber thugs are using Delilah to seek your secret weakness to blackmail you.

Really don’t sweat it as there is no reason to go into full paranoid mode, at least not yet, since Delilah is not on “common” black markets; for right now, Delilah is only being shared among “closed” criminal hacker groups to recruit targeted insiders.

Once Delilah has infected a machine, having been downloaded via gaming or adult sites, then it hides and lurks until it knows your dirty little secrets. The malware, which was discovered by threat intelligence firm Diskin Advanced Technologies (DAT), starts gathering personal information, including facts about family and workplace, as soon as it is installed; when it finds dirt, then cyber thugs will use it to manipulate or extort the victim into coughing up a company's secrets.

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