Canadian police report that they have arrested a 27-year-old woman, Valérie Gignac, with a spree of unpleasant attacks, where victims were spied upon and harassed through their webcams.

Gignac is accused of hacking into computers by transplanting a malicious Remote Access Trojan onto victims’ PCs. This gave her total control of the system.

She not only eavesdropped on private conversation, frightened unsuspected users by talking back through their speaker and remotely logging into hardcore porn websites. What is most disturbing is that she also preyed on children.

Philippe Gravel of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s integrated technological crime unit said: “She spoke with them, she interacted with them. She showed them some pornography on the screen just to see how they would react.”

She took videos of the petrified victims and posted them on her YouTube channel for her followers to view.

She is also alleged to be the owner of an active online hacking forum with 35,000 members worldwide. The forum has been seized by authorities.

She has been released on bail, but has been admonished to not use a computer or access the internet in the meantime.

Source: HotforSecurity