On the screen, Elias saw a grainy, high-contrast image of himself sleeping. At the bottom of the window, a small green text overlay appeared, mimicking the sketchy site he’d visited:
But that night, as Elias lay in bed, his PC monitor clicked on by itself. From across the room, he watched as the mouse cursor moved with purpose. It wasn’t opening Chrome or checking files. It was opening his webcam feed.
The file was surprisingly small. Too small. He unzipped it to find a single executable titled Setup_Free_Gold_Version.exe .