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In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison. Continue reading Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
Porn-recording feature will likely be used for extortion. Continue reading PsiXBot Adds PornModule, Google DNS Service to Its Arsenal
Here’s a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there. Continue reading Blackmailed for Bitcoin – exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand
Scammers have contacted websites demanding a ransom message be paid or else they will ensure the site will be blacklisted for aggressive spamming activities.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Email blackmailer threatens to have your website blocked forever
If it wasn’t bad enough extortionists threatening to release sex videos of you, or claiming you were a member of an adultery website, or that your name has been mentioned as part of an investigation into an international child abuse ring, now bla… Continue reading Email blackmailer threatens to have your website blocked forever
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for May 13th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Israel bombs a building in retaliation for a cyber-attack, Google adds more privacy settings, and a new blackmail scam that uses tradit… Continue reading Israel Cyber-Attack Bombing, New Google Privacy Settings, Traditional Mail Blackmail Scam
Here’s a 30-second video you can show your friends and family if they freak out after receiving a scam email apparently from themselves… Continue reading Sextortion mail from yourself? It doesn’t mean you’ve been hacked…
Today we have seen a big change in the plague of Blackmail, Sextortion Scam attempts we have all been seeing over the last few months and even years. The emails will all basically say that he has placed a keylogger on your computer and has evidence o… Continue reading Big change in the plague of Blackmail, Sextortion Scam attempts
The latest version of these horrific porn related Sextortion, blackmail scams has changed slightly and pretends to be a message from a CIA employee who is part of the task force on paedophilia. It states you are on the list to be investigated and are … Continue reading Fake CIA Sextortion Scam
Share this video with your less tech-savvy friends and family to set their minds at rest about sextortion. Continue reading Sextortion – what’s new, and what to do [VIDEO]