Threats to users of adult websites in 2018

guest · Feb 21, 2019

Threats to users of adult websites in 2018
February 21, 2019
https://securelist.com/threats-to-users-of-adult-websites-in-2018/89634/

It is no secret that digital pornography has long been associated with malware and cyberthreats. While some of these stories are now shown to be myths, others are very legitimate.
Last year, we discovered a number of malicious samples that were specifically hunting for credentials to access some of the most popular pornographic websites.
Methodology and key findings
We examined malware disguised as pornographic content, and malware that hunts for credentials to access pornography websites. We looked at the threats that are attacking users across the internet in order to find out which popular websites might be dangerous to visit.
[...] we checked our phishing and spam database to see if there is a lot of pornographic content on file and how is it used in the wild.

Additionally, we checked around twenty underground online markets and counted how many accounts are up for sale, which are the most popular, and the price they are sold for. [...]
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