Monday, March 14, 2011

High profile cyber sex scandal in Maldives

Failed to identify the photo by running  face recognition.

Age of cyber crime has begun in Maldives. Most of the high profile cyber crimes are originated from the southern most atoll of the Maldives, which is  Addu city.
In 2005 Dhiraagu web servers were hacked and several hosted websites were messed up. And now we are witnessing DoS attacks. Some of these attacks are so successful that it completely shutdown Internet services for some periods.
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After the highly organized attacks on Dhiraagu servers the hackers in Addu city switched their target. The hot topic in the Maldives is now the high profile cyber sex scandal which include cabinet  ministers, MPs and prominent Judicial Service members. The hackers' initial aim was to earn some money through black mailing.

How did they do it?
The teenage group contacted the high profile figures through the social networking service "Face Book". The women in the picture is the profile photo of several facebook ID's the group used to contact the prominent figures. After a lot of sweet talking the group gave them "her" personal Windows Messenger ID.

Now the group has a virtual web cam which streams pre-recorded porn video. As the video chat session was going, the group was silently recording everything without the slightest hint to the victims.

The Black Mailing
After recording hardcore chat sessions, they threatened them with the recorded videos. Bank of Maldives has guaranteed money transfer to Addu city by unnamed government figures, according to sources.
The news was broken by the media regarding the arrest of several teenagers in Addu city during president Nasheed's visit to Addu which began on 17th Feb 2011. The government tried its best to confiscate all the videos before leaking to the public. Despite the efforts many tapes were leaked and available for anyone to see.

Police did not reveal much detail about the investigations. Even though this is a highly sensitive issue the public,  independent bodies and NGO's continue to remain silent.