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The Exploitation of VR Technologies

Threat actor communities construct virtual places to meet, share ideas, and promote dangerous groups and activities. While this has up until now centered around message boards, forums, online games, and private servers, these communities are beginning to experiment with the possibilities presented by VR technologies. ActiveFence has used our deep access to these threat communities to report on a new frontier in the fight for online safety.

We have detected an evolution in online behavior as threat actors test how to migrate their current harmful activity into VR spaces. Those groups adopting the potential of VR Technologies include

  • terrorist organizations
  • extremist racist, hateful groups
  • child predators and pedophiles
Gideon Freud
Gideon Freud

Gideon is a Senior Intelligence Writer at ActiveFence. He graduated from Oxford University in 2012, where he studied social and cultural anthropology with a special focus on the growth of political extremism in Europe. He joined ActiveFence in January 2021, and is interested in researching the development of national laws focused on regulating online activities.