Internet Pedos use "hacking techniques"

Web paedophiles are turning to cracking techniques to cover their tracks, claims the head of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU).

Detective Chief Superintendent Les Hynds warned today of cases where pay-per-view child porn sites on corporate servers after gaining control to victims' servers.

Hynds declined to furnish details, citing operational reasons, but he gave a basic outline of the crime, which he describes as a growing problem.

"Organised crime gangs involved in paedophilia are starting to use hacking techniques to leave secret files on business systems," he explained.

This sounds like simple not so good old-fashioned FTP pornjacking to us.

Web paedophilia is one of five areas of serious or organised crime currently being targeted by the multi-disciplinary National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. Other areas of concern include drug trafficking (criminals using the Internet as a tool to distribute drugs and for money laundering), extortion, hacking, virus writing and fraud.

For businesses, fraud and extortion are the two most pressing concerns. In many cases the two are found to be closely related

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