Collaborate Disseminate
The infamous ransomware operatives known as the Maze Team have issued a “press release” condemning IT administrators who tried to use bribery to cover up their failure to protect their employers from hackers. In an interesting twist, ransom… Continue reading IT Admins Allegedly Offer Hackers ‘Naked Photos of Boss’s Secretary’ in Exchange for Ransomware Decryption Keys
By Deeba Ahmed
Hackers are using supposed nude photos of a friend’s girlfriend in the latest sextortion scam – Here’s what’s happening…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Friend’s girlfriend sextortion scam infects PCs wit… Continue reading Friend’s girlfriend sextortion scam infects PCs with Raccoon malware
A new extortion attack has targeted hundreds of users affected by the Ashley Madison breach over the past week. Continue reading Ashley Madison Breach Extortion Scam Targets Hundreds
A bizarre sextortion scam is attempting to trick victims that not only has their smartphone been hacked to spy upon their private lives, but also every other device they have encountered which contains a built-in camera.
Read more in my article on the … Continue reading Sextortion scam leverages Nest video footage to fool victims into believing they are being spied upon everywhere
This follow-up sextortion demand, timed to align with Christmas, has a much more aggressive and menacing tone that last week’s version. Continue reading Sextortionists return for Christmas – price goes down, threats go up
This “I am well aware” email is just another sextortion scam where crooks try to blackmail you with a video they don’t actually have. Continue reading Don’t fall for this porn scam – even if your password’s in the subject!
Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they’ve charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called “Nuclear Bot.” Continue reading Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case
Internet users are being sent sextortion emails, claiming to have recorded videos of their X-rated website visits and demanding payment be made in Litecoin.
Continue reading Sextortion with a twist of Litecoin
The SIM-swap victim knew he was in trouble when he got a 3:30 a.m. message about his phone service being cut off. Continue reading Sextortionist whisks away sex tapes using just a phone number
Despite a nearly four-month absence, the return of Emotet within the last two weeks of September accounted for nearly 12 percent of all malicious email samples in Q3, delivering millions of messages with malicious URLs or attachments, Proofpoint found…. Continue reading Attackers continue to leverage greater levels of social engineering and sophistication