The 'Sextortion' scam uses password violations for target victims
The 'Sextortion' scam uses password violations for target victims
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(REUTERS / Kacper Pempel)The scammers are increasing their game of sexual extortion.
Cyber-crooks are the best opportunists. And the latest scam uses stolen passwords and sexual blackmail, according to a report by Barracuda Networks, an IT security company.
According to Barracuda, the sextortion scam works like this: first, they capture your attention by sending an email boasting a password stolen during a previous data breach, such as the infamous data breaches of Yahoo! and Equifax.
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They then claim that their computer has been infected with a remote access Trojan (RAT), which scammers call a "remote desktop". The scammers claim that the remote access comes from a pornography website and that they have registered it by viewing "explicitly" videos. "
Then, to really get their attention, the scammers claim to have their contact list and, unless they pay, the video will be distributed to all their contacts.
A woman Barracuda spoke to has received a variant of the scam email three times during October. The passwords were "very old," but the scammers said that even if she had updated her passwords, it did not matter because "they had been controlling the computer for years."
Criminals demand payment in bitcoin. In one example, scammers demand $ 5,000.
"The good news is that there is not a video or a contact list," Barracuda said in an interview. blog entry.
"The attacker has a legitimate password, but it is most likely that a list of more than 500 million leaked passwords revealed through a series of violations, which were made available in 2016, was obtained from the AntiPublic combined list. , instead of malware in the user's computer, "said Barracuda.
The scam started in July and is still active, according to Barracuda, who found approximately 24,000 emails since September based on lists reported by customers. "The samples we examined come from clients who reported them manually, so there are likely to be many more who were not informed," said Barracuda. The affected countries include Australia, Canada, China and the USA. UU In the publication of the blog you can find a complete list of countries.
So far, however, the scam has not been very successful.
An attack against cybercriminals is the lack of skills in the English language. "Better spelling and grammar would increase the scam's effectiveness, given that this poor English has been associated with email scams in general," Jonathan Tanner, software engineer at Barracuda Networks, told Fox News.
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Despite the inefficiency, these scams will not disappear. On the one hand, the overload for the scammer is extremely low. Criminals simply need to send emails to addresses on publicly available lists, Barracuda said.
"I think the scammers are just betting for a bit of quick money and since it looks like they have paid ransoms to their Bitcoin wallets, about $ 2,500 out of 1000 wallets, the scam has been somewhat effective," said Tanner.
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