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Sextortion Botnet Spreads 30,000 Emails an Hour

Most of you have probably seen or heard of the threatening email that starts with “Hi, I know one of your passwords is: xxxxx“.  The email goes on to say that the email writer has infected the recipient’s PC, including access to the recipient’s webcam. The attacker claims, by virtue of installing the malware on […]

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Sextortionists Shift Scare Tactics

Sextortion is the act of convincing vulnerable people, often teenagers, to provide the sextortionist with sexually explicit photographs and videos under the threat of releasing other embarrassing material, such nude pictures that may already privately exist in the victim’s email, text messages or private social media. The attacker does this by convincing the victim that […]

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