Robert Davies, 32, has been jailed for 2 years and two months
A perverted software program engineer hacked right into a schoolgirl’s webcam and secretly filmed her showering and undressing as a part of a marketing campaign of cyber voyeurism that focused greater than 30 victims.
Robert Davies, 32, who has been jailed for 2 years and two months, was discovered with photographs of the woman on his laptop computer along with an additional 27 indecent photographs and movies of kids.
He additionally spent two years befriending one 11-year-old woman earlier than having access to her laptop and switching on her webcam.
Davies used malware to remotely entry his victims’ webcams, recordsdata and chat histories with out their data, earlier than stealing intimate footage and movies.
In some circumstances, he created faux Skype accounts to ‘catfish’ his victims into performing intercourse acts with him.
Davies first got here to the eye of the Nationwide Crime Company (NCA) in 2019 after he bought quite a few cybercrime instruments, together with crypters (encryption software program) and distant administration instruments (RATs).
He was additionally recognized as a buyer of weleakinfo, a web-based market promoting stolen credentials, which was taken offline final yr.
Davies contaminated his victims’ telephones or computer systems with malicious software program by disguising it with the crypters so their anti-virus safety wouldn’t detect it.
He then used the RATs to achieve distant entry to their gadgets and steal any sexual photographs (primarily of girls) that they had saved on there.
The pervert was arrested thrice between November 2019 and August 2021, every time being charged with additional offences as officers analysed his gadgets and the true scale of his offending got here to gentle.
Davies additionally spent two years befriending one 11-year-old woman earlier than having access to her laptop and switching on her webcam. File picture
On 2 September, he pleaded responsible to 24 Laptop Misuse Act offences, voyeurism, three counts of possessing indecent photographs of kids (IIOC), making IIOC and possessing excessive pornographic photographs.
Yesterday, he was sentenced to Nottingham Crown Court docket to 26 months in jail.
He was additionally positioned on the intercourse offenders’ register, given a ten yr restraining order on 5 of the victims and a ten yr sexual hurt prevention order.
Andrew Shorrock, Operations Supervisor from the NCA’s Nationwide Cyber Crime Unit, stated: ‘Davies had amassed what can solely be described as a cyber legal’s toolkit.
‘Not solely was he utilizing these instruments to interrupt into peoples’ gadgets, he was utilizing them to spy on his unsuspecting victims and to steal bare photographs of them for his personal sexual gratification.
‘Much more disturbing is the truth that at the least one in every of his victims was an adolescent and we discovered a set of photographs and movies of kid sexual abuse on his laptop.
‘Rising the barrier of entry into cybercrime by decreasing the supply of, and accessibility to, off-the-shelf instruments is a key focus for the NCA. We work with a variety of companions to focus on each criminals and their infrastructure, to finally disrupt and deter any such offending.’