Zain Qaiser: Student jailed for blackmailing porn users worldwide
A student who made hundreds of thousands of pounds blackmailing porn website users with cyber attacks has been jailed for more than six years.
His jail sentence of six years and five months is a second major success for the National Crime Agency after the jailing earlier this year ofQaiser was first arrested almost five years ago - but the case has been delayed because of the complexity of the investigation and mental health concerns. But each of the adverts that was promoted on the websites contained a malicious tool called the"Angler".
"Out of fear of embarrassment from friends or family members discovering they had accessed pornography, many users paid the ransom," prosecutor Joel Smith told Kingston Crown Court.To make thing worse, the warning page claimed that police had captured webcam images of the user during their visit to the adult website - and gave a deadline for the payment to be made.
The NCA's financial investigators identified that the former computer sciences student personally received almost £550,000 by the time of his arrest.
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