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FBI Used Booby-Trapped Video to Catch Suspected Sextortionist Hiding Behind Tor

US authorities arrest suspect who used Tor to disguise his online identity and coerce underage female victims into sending sexually explicit images and videos in a tactic commonly referred to as “sextortion”” The FBI managed to catch the suspect in June 2017 after it created and deployed a custom NIT (Network Investigative Technique) that relied on appending de-anonymizing code inside a video file. FBI agents hosted the file on a Dropbox account shared by the sextortionist and one of his victims

Source: where with a judge’s approval they set up video surveillance and used a pen-trap device to intercept the Internet traffic coming and going from the suspect’s home.”

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