Malware Author Lures Child Abusers Into Honeytrap to Extort Them

You rarely root for online criminals, but a new malware campaign targeting child exploiters does not make you feel awful about the victims.

Since 2012, threat actors have developed a range of malware and ransomware that impersonate government agencies and earn affected Windows users that they are seeing CSAM. The software informs users that they must pay a “penalty” to keep their information from being transferred to law enforcement.

One of the first “modern” ransomware operations, known as Anti-Child Porn Spam Protection or ACCDFISA, used this extortion strategy in conjunction with initially locking Windows systems and eventually encrypting files.

Similar extortion techniques were used by cybersecurity researcher MalwareHunterTeam to share an executable malware sample named “CryptVPN” [VirusTotal] with BleepingComputer last week.

This time, though, the malware creator is going after people who actively seek child pornography rather than innocent people.

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