Security News > 2020 > January > Liverpool Voyeur Used IM-RAT to Video Women at Home

The defendant, Scott Crowley, said in a court hearing that he used Imminent Monitor to hack the victims' computer and phone webcams so he could spy on them and film them in various compromising positions, including undressing and having sex.

The prosecutor on the case said that in examining Crowley's computer, officers discovered three folders named after each of his victims; these contained images and videos of the women undressing, and in some cases having sex.

"The FTC recently banned three apps from Retina-X Studios, which the agency said were"uniquely suited to illegal and dangerous uses - though the developers insisted the apps were for tracking employees and children only.

In a similar vein, last fall the Ghosty app was removed from the Google Play and Apple's App Store.

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