We have already explained to you, actively and passively, everything related to spying on WhatsApp. Unless we use a trick like taking advantage of an active WhatsApp Web session or installing a spy application on the victim’s phone (something totally illegal), there is not much else to do. There are no miracle apps or services, no matter what we pay for them. However, there are many who continue to fall into the trap and today we know that the National Police detains ten false hackers for defrauding hundreds of customers with false services such as spying on WhatsApp, social networks and others.
New operation of the National Police against a group of people who perpetrated illegal activities on the Internet. In this case, the state security bodies and forces explained to us that the operation was against a new criminal modality baptized as hacktortion and in which 10 people have been arrested.
They posted ads offering hacker services
Basically, they published advertisements offering their services “as hackers” to spy on messaging applications, email accounts, elimination of pending debts with the Tax Agency, elimination of fines from the DGT or change of notes on university servers, among others. When the victim made the payment, the detainees threatened to publish private content.
Searches have been carried out in Zaragoza, Barcelona, Girona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in which 40 mobile phone terminals, 17 hard drives, 3 computers, 5 tablets and 24 pen drives were intervened. A total of 176,775 euros of money sent by the victims of extortion has also been intervened.
The National Police managed to identify more than 12,000 advertisements of this type , in addition to more than 40 telephone numbers, more than 200 email accounts and almost 1,300 Internet connection IP addresses. All this information was analyzed and five different sources of participation were detected.
This led to the initiation of five investigations that reached a common link and precipitated the entire operation. When the victim was blackmailed with captures and personal data, they often chose to pay. If not, the alleged hackers contacted the person they wanted to spy on and told them everything .
It is estimated that, after 3,000 bank movements, there would be 430 victims who would have managed to swindle 341,000 euros in total. Luckily, this organization will no longer commit crimes on the Internet, but we must exercise caution and assume that we cannot spy on WhatsApp or know who visits our Facebook profile or change university grades or many things that we only see in movies.