Security News > 2022 > January > U.K. Hacker Jailed for Spying on Children and Downloading Indecent Images

A man from the U.K. city of Nottingham has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for illegally breaking into the phones and computers of a number of victims, including women and children, to spy on them and amass a collection of indecent images.

Robert Davies, 32, is said to have purchased an arsenal of cyber crime tools in 2019, including crypters and remote administration tools, which can be used as a backdoor to steal personal information and conduct surveillance through microphones and cameras, catching the attention of the U.K. National Crime Agency.

Officials said a total of 27 compromising images and videos of children were found on his computer, with over 30 victims identified over the course of the investigation.

Davies, who was arrested thrice between November 2019 and August 2021, now faces a jailterm of 26 months on charges of computer misuse, voyeurism, owning indecent images of children, and for making IIOC and possessing extreme pornographic images.

"Davies had amassed what can only be described as a cyber criminal's toolkit," Andrew Shorrock of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit said.

"Not only was he using these tools to break in to peoples' devices, he was using them to spy on his unsuspecting victims and to steal naked images of them for his own sexual gratification."

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